write a newspaper report in about 100 words on the bus accident in murshidbad
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KOLKATA: Thirty-six people, including two children, died after the state bus they were travelling in toppled over Balirghat bridge under Daulatabad police station in West Bengal's Murshidabad, 12 kilometres off Berhampore, early on Monday while trying to avoid a truck closing in from the opposite direction.
The driver of the bus, carrying 56 people (as per police), was speaking on his cell-phone while driving even refusing to heed to repeated pleas by passengers not to do so.
The North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) bus was scheduled to leave Karimpur (Nadia) at 5:20am for Malda. It left 25 minutes later, at 5:45 am. Around 6:55am, it was crossing the bridge. Ziarul Haq, an eyewitness, said a truck was coming from the opposite direction (Berhampore). "It was foggy. All we saw was the truck coming perilously close to the bus. Desperate to avoid the truck, the bus swerved to the right and fell over the bridge," he said.
The locals spotted three bodies and seven people who were alive. They were taken ashore. Prabhati Haldar, believed to be in her mid-thirties, survived the crash only to die within minutes after being rescued.