2 dead, 10 injured as bus catches fire after contact with live wire in Jaipur

Jaipur:Two people were electrocuted and ten others injured when a private bus caught fire after coming into contact with a hanging high-tension wire in the Manoharpur area on Tuesday, police said.

According to Additional Superintendent of Police Tejpal Singh, the bus was carrying labourers from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh to a brick kiln in Manoharpur.

He said gas cylinders and other household belongings placed on the roof of the vehicle touched a high-tension power line as the bus travelled along an internal dirt road near a village in Manoharpur. The bus caught fire immediately after coming into contact with the live wire.

Some of the labourers managed to jump to safety as flames engulfed the vehicle.

The fire was later extinguished, and the injured were taken to a government hospital in Shahpura. Six of them, suffering from severe burn injuries, were later referred to SMS Hospital in Jaipur, while others received primary treatment in Shahpura.

Deputy Chief Minister and Transport Minister Prem Chand Bairwa said that an investigation would be launched into the incident.

Fourth bus fire in less than a month

In less than a month, two deadly bus fires elsewhere in India have claimed over 45 lives and injured dozens.

A double-decker air-conditioned sleeper bus travelling from Delhi to Gonda caught fire near the Revri toll plaza on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway early morning on October 26. All 39 passengers escaped unharmed.

On October 24, 2025, a luxury sleeper coach travelling from Hyderabad to Bengaluru caught fire near Chinna Tekuru village in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool district after colliding with a motorbike, killing 19 people. The vehicle, carrying 43 passengers, was completely destroyed in the blaze.

Another horrific blaze on October 14 in Jaisalmer killed 26 passengers and killed several others, triggered by an electrocal short circuit in the vehicle’s air conditioning unit.

(With PTI inputs)