Kozhikode: One person died and 18 others were injured after a sleeper bus veered off the road and fell into a ditch on the Kadalundi Mannur Old Bank road at Poocherikkunnu curve. The accident happened at 2.30 am on Saturday. The bus, named Kohinoor, was en route to Udupi from Thiruvananthapuram.
The deceased, Amal (28), son of Mohanan, was a native of Alankode. Police and fire brigade carried out the rescue operations.
There were 27 passengers and three crew members in the bus. 18 of them were injured and two sustained fractures. The injured persons have been shifted to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.
"The driver might have dozed off at the wheel. It was a slope and the bus went down after losing control," a police officer said to PTI. The deceased man got trapped beneath the vehicle and his life could not be saved though he was rushed to a nearby hospital, cops added.