CHANDIGARH, May 22 -- A private bus overturned on the Amritsar-Pathankot national highway on Friday, leaving two students dead and five injured, police said.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann expressed grief over the incident and announced a financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of the two who died and free treatment to those injured.
"The news of the bus overturning near Sekhwan police station in Batala is extremely heartbreaking. I express profound grief over the two deaths in this accident," Mann said in a post on X in Punjabi.
The deceased, both aged around 23, hailed from Jammu, Station House Officer of Sekhwan police station in Batala, Rajwant Kaur said.
The deceased were students from a college in Punjab, sh...