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Kolkata: Minibus crashes into app-cab near Rasbehari crossing, several hurt

| | Mar 05, 2017, at 08:00 pm
Kolkata, Mar 5 (IBNS): At least 11 persons were injured as a speeding minibus hit an Ola cab near Rasbehari crossing under Tollygunge Police Station limits in south Kolkata on Sunday, reports said.

According to reports, a Kalitala to Howrah Station bound minibus suddenly lost its control and crashed into an app-based taxi, waiting at a traffic signal, near Rasbehari crossing.

One woman passenger of the cab and at least 10 passengers of the minibus were injured in the mishap and were rushed to M.R. Bangur hospital nearby.

Police have seized the bus, while its driver and conductor are absconding.

Meanwhile, a wedding-party bus reportedly overturned and fell into a roadside canal at Nayagram area in West Bengal's West Medinipur district on Saturday midnight, leaving at least 25 passengers injured.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha) 

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