New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday expressed profound sorrow over the tragic loss of nine lives in a bus fire on the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh, describing the incident as "extremely heartbreaking."

Nine people, including one woman and eight men, died after a passenger bus caught fire on the Yamuna Expressway late Wednesday night, Jewar Police said.

Taking to social media platform X, the President extended her deepest condolences to the grieving families and prayed for the speedy recovery of those who sustained injuries.

"The news of the deaths of people in a fire that broke out in a bus on the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh is extremely heartbreaking. I express my deepest condolences to the bereave...