Two injured after bus ploughs through crowded footpath

Kolkata: Two people were left injured after a private bus rode the crowded footpath in Gariahat and rammed into a tea-stall on Monday afternoon.

The accident took place at around 12.30 pm when the bus lost control while running along Rasbehari Avenue and ended up on the footpath.

It dashed a tea-stall near gate no. 1 of Gariahat market. The bus was moving towards Kalighat at a high speed from Bijan Setu. In the incident, tea-stall owner Prabir Sarkar (36) from Jibantala in South 24 Parganas and Kunal Maity (29), a bus-passenger of Howrah were injured.

Following this, they were rushed to Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan. Furious over the accident, the hawkers, businessmen and shopkeepers demonstrated for some time. They also demanded compensation for the damage to tea-stall.

The police impounded the bus and arrested its driver. Barely an hour before the accident, a four-year-old school student was injured at Laboni Island in Salt Lake when a speeding government bus dashed her father’s cycle in which she was returning home from school. Angry locals had vandalised the bus.

The police arrested its driver. Meanwhile a motorcyclist,  Ananda Shaw (31) of Beliaghata, was injured after he rammed his two-wheeler into an OLA cab on Maa flyover at around 12.10 pm. He was admitted to Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital.