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Angry mob torches bus

Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty

incurs wrath: What remains of a bus which was burnt by enraged mob after it ran over a girl at Rabi Talkies square in Bhubaneswar on Monday. —

BHUBANESWAR: Angry onlookers set a passenger bus on fire and threw traffic out of gear for more than one hour at busy Rabi Talkies Square of the city on Monday following death of a girl in a road accident.

The victim, Jyoti Rekha Dash, was crossing the road at about 11.30 am when the bus from Puri hit the girl and dragged her for a 40 feet distance. Jyoti died on the spot.

Most of the bystanders shrieked seeing the girl falling but the bus driver, unmindful of events unfolding around him, kept on rolling the vehicle.

The mob rushed towards the bus and pulled the driver from his seat.

The onlookers were about to attack the driver when a police team arrived at the spot and rescued him. Though another police team from Lingaraj Police Station arrived, people were no in no mood to listen any suggestions.

Passengers were asked to get off from the bus as police helplessly tried to pacify crowd.

Then a few of local people torched the vehicle.

In the process, many Cuttack bound passengers failed to retrieve their luggage from the bus.

A fire tender service vehicle, which reached to extinguish the fire, was also not spared.

People pelted stones at it and damaged the vehicle.

Top police officials, including Additional Commissioner of Police Y. B. Khurania and Deputy Commissioner of Police Amitabh Thakur reached the spot to bring the situation under control.

After one hour the busy Cuttack-Puri road was cleared and normal traffic resumed.

The victim was a last year student of Master of Computer Application programme at Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang.

She had already got a job in campus interview and would have joined a software firm in July next.

Meanwhile, the driver has been arrested.

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