India, Sept. 26 -- Grieving families gathered at a post-mortem house in Sector 94 in Noida on Friday, struggling to identify loved ones killed a day ago when a sleeper bus caught fire on the Yamuna Expressway, with police identifying six of the nine deceased so far.

The bus, travelling from Kashmere Gate in Delhi to Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh, caught fire around 11.20 pm on Wednesday near the 33-km milestone of the expressway, killing nine passengers, according to officials.

At the Sector 94 post-mortem house, relatives waited anxiously as the charred condition of the bodies made identification difficult. Among those at the mortuary was Sarvagya, son of Rekha Bhardwaj, an injured passenger who survived the incident. Rekha had been travelli...