Raipur: Three people were killed and eight others injured when a bus collided with a truck in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar-Bhatapara district, police said, in a PTI newsalert published on Monday morning, October 26.

Source: PTI via Daily World

Regional television reports gave further detail of the early-hours crash. Bansal News reported that the passenger bus was travelling from Ambikapur to Raipur with about 22 passengers on board and collided with a stationary truck near Simga on the national highway at around 5:30 am, killing three people at the scene.

Source: Bansal News

3People killed in the bus-truck collision in Balodabazar-Bhatapara district, police said via PTI
8People injured according to PTI; regional channels put the injured at eight to ten
About 22Passengers reported on board the Ambikapur-Raipur bus, according to regional news reports

Vistaar News reported that trapped passengers were rescued with the help of a gas cutter and that police, ambulance and rescue teams reached the site near Simga, with the injured taken to hospital in Simga for treatment. Sadhna News, in its morning update, located the crash between Damakheda and Darchura on the Bilaspur-Raipur national highway and also reported three deaths and eight to ten injuries.

Source: Vistaar News

Police had not released the identities of those killed or a cause for the collision in the initial reports. Awaaz Punjab is treating the figures above as the initial toll reported by police via PTI and corroborated by regional channels, and will update this story if officials revise them.