India, July 29 -- At least 18 kanwariyas were killed and several others were injured after a bus they were travelling in collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders in Jharkhand's Deoghar district.

"In my Lok Sabha constituency of Deoghar, 18 devotees lost their lives in a tragic accident involving a bus and a truck during the Kanwar Yatra in the holy month of Shravan," Godda MP Nishikant Dubey wrote in a post on X. " May Baba Baidyanath give strength to their families to bear this grief."

According to PTI, the accident took place at around 4:30am near the Jamuniya forest, within the Mohanpur Police Station limits.

Earlier, Inspector General (Dumka Zone) Shailendra Kumar Sinha told PTI that five people were confirmed dead a...