Unstable bus driver kills 9 in Pune

A government bus driver ran berserk through the streets of Pune and smashed his empty bus into dozens of vehicles which causes death of nine people and injured 27 people.

“He just went berserk,” city police commissioner Meeran Borwanker told reporters.

“On the way, he went on ramming whatever vehicles were plying the road,” she said, adding that pedestrians pushed children out of the way of the bus to protect them.

“He was in such a dangerous kind of mood,” she said.

A senior police officer informed that police were interrogating driver Santosh Mane to know about these accidents. He will most likely be charged with murder case. The bus driver was not drunk.

The bus driver was being chased by police vehicles because they wanted to stop the bus somehow which was causing chaos on the road.

Mane drove for more than 20 km (12 miles), mostly on the wrong side of the road, before being brought to a halt, the police officer said.

A college student, Sharif Ibrahim Kutty, played an important role in overpowering the Mane.

“I saw a bus approach a woman and a young child and it just crushed her and then kept going, dragging her with it,” Sharif informed to a news channel.

“I got on my bike and I started chasing him. The police fired three rounds, but in vain. At a particular stage near a theatre, he lost control of the bus.”