Greater Noida, Sept. 24 -- 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.

The bus was travelling from Delhi when it suddenly caught fire on the expressway under the Jewar police station area of Greater Noida. Passengers who managed to escape recounted harrowing scenes inside the packed bus.

While speaking to ANI, passengers recounted harrowing moments of chaos, suffocating smoke, and a stampede-like situation inside the packed bus, with most passengers asleep when the fire broke out.

"After I fell asleep, someone woke me up, saying the bus had caught fire, and we all scrambled to get out. It was not an easy situation to escape from...