India, Nov. 2 -- In a second road accident in Rajasthan in less than a month, at least 15 people were killed as a minibus carrying devotees caught fire in Phalodi on Sunday. The incident comes less than 20 days after the deadly accident on Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway in which at least 20 people were burnt alive.

"Fifteen passengers died, while two others sustained serious injuries. The injured were first taken to a hospital in Osian for primary treatment and later referred to Jodhpur," news agency PTI reported quoting Jodhpur police commissioner Om Prakash.

The fire broke out when the Force Traveller rammed into a stationary trailer truck near Matoda village on the Bharat Mala Highway.

The victims, whose bodies have been kept in the mort...