00:00Some breaking news, killer Mumbai bus mows down four people reversing Mumbai bus kills four
00:06pedestrians. We're showing you the CCTV visuals of the moment when this accident happened when
00:12the bus mowed down four people. This happened in the Bhandup area which is on the outskirts of
00:19Mumbai. The bus was reversing and that is when it killed four pedestrians. As you can see in
00:25these visuals, this is the moment of the accident when the bus mowed down four people. As you
00:32can see, it's a CCTV visual from a shop and outside the shop this accident happened. You
00:39can see the kind of crowd that is over there and this is the aftermath, complete chaos after
00:45the bus mowed down four people. And we're learning that the bus was reversing and that is when
00:53it went on a killing spree and this entire accident was caught on a CCTV, on a shop CCTV. As you
01:01can see in these visuals, the people running when they saw the bus reversing and then it
01:07mowed down four people and after which there was complete chaos outside the shop. It is a crowded
01:13area. This is the Bhandup area which is on the outskirts of Mumbai. My colleague Vidya is now
01:19joining us with more details on this horrific news coming to the fore from Bhandup in Mumbai.
01:25Vidya, what more details are we gathering?
01:27Has any action been taken against the driver of this bus?
01:35Well, I'm right now at the spot of the incident and this is where the entire investigation really
01:40revolves around. Of course, the driver was detained immediately after the incident. But if you can
01:46really see this entire site of incidents, this is a small area where this entire incident has happened. These
01:52huge buses take a U-turn right here outside the Bhandup station. And the passengers, as you can see,
02:00there's a bus stop right there. And people are already queuing up to take the buses, the next bus that
02:07comes in. And similarly, you can imagine during the entire rush hour time, it's exactly around 10 o'clock
02:13in the evening. There were a lot of, you know, p-hawkers who were there. There were a lot of passengers
02:20coming out of the railway station. There were people trying to catch their buses. There was a huge crowd.
02:26A lot of people that I've been speaking to since morning, they have all been saying that the condition
02:31in this area, it's so congested that, you know, it's very difficult for the buses to take a turn. And in the midst of it,
02:38while the bus driver was trying to take a turn and move on, that's the time he really hit, instead of
02:44probably the brake, he actually hit the accelerator and climbed onto the footpath, where you can see,
02:51and that's where the people who were waiting for the buses, they were there and they were crushed,
02:56they were crushed under the bus. And they came, you know, that really led to the incident where four
03:00people have died and 10 people are still in the hospital, you know, recuperating and trying,
03:05the doctors are trying to ensure that they, they be released as early as possible from the hospital.
03:11All right. With your ado, stay with us. We're showing our viewers the visuals of
03:15the moment when this accident occurred. This has been captured on a shop CCTV. As you can see
03:21on your left, you can see the moment of the accident when the bus moored down. You can see people
03:26in a shop and the bus was reversing and that is when the people started running. There was complete chaos.
03:33And then eventually the bus moored down four people, after which complete chaos broke out
03:39outside the shop. You can see the people running as they saw the bus coming towards
03:44them. And it still managed to moor down four people. It is a crowded area. And on the right,
03:50you can see what happened after the accident, after the bus moored down four people. Remember,
03:57it's not just four people, but several others were injured as well while the bus was reversing.
04:03And with them, my colleague continues to stay with us. But they were learning that
04:06several people were injured also, apart from the four people who have lost their lives.
04:11Oh, well, there were about 10 people. One person has been discharged is what we are being told. But
04:20then there are nine others were still in the hospital. They are being given the treatment. But
04:24of course, the investigation, and remember, this really brings back the memory of just last year,
04:28when we had seen a similar incident outside Kurla railway station, where nine people had died while the bus
04:34had gone on a rampage, killing, you know, people on the streets. While, you know, the drivers,
04:42as he said that he tried his best to put the brake, but the brake didn't work. Between the two,
04:46the driver is still, you know, behind bus. In the last 12, almost a year now, 12 months now,
04:53we have not seen that, you know, the driver has not been granted bail. He's still facing charges.
04:59The trial in that case is yet to begin with this framing of charges that has happened,
05:03but proceedings further has still not happened when you actually have another incident like this.
05:08So certainly, you know, the BST, then the lot of political people are already asking, like we had
05:14seen here, Barsha Gayakwar from the Congress really put out a question about the functioning of BST,
05:19the civic buses that are run in the city, which are on a rampage themselves, wherein such incidences
05:25are happening and moving down people, citizens of the city. So certainly, there are a lot of questions
05:31about the maintenance of these buses, the kind of people who are hired to do the job of driving the
05:37buses these days. That's something that is being questioned quite a lot right now after these incidences.
05:44Right. Vidya, as you already mentioned that this is a quite congested area, was there even scope of
05:50reversing the bus at that moment? We're showing our viewers the visuals where a crowd can be seen.
05:58And also, was there any BST staff that was assisting the driver during the reversing maneuver?
06:04Yes, we have been here for a while and we have been seeing, you can see how, you know, when
06:13the buses move around, the conductors are actually outside waiting for the buses, you know, the way
06:19they are moved ahead and back, backwards, and then it is really taken forward. So in these incidences,
06:24if you can see, this particular, say for example, this bus, the driver is inside, but the conductor
06:31would be somewhere outside right now. He's outside, he's speaking to the other staff, but then he will
06:37assist the driver to get out, you know, come out of this entire place. You can see, there's hardly any
06:43space for the driver to really move, maneuver inside, go outside on this portion. And then, you know,
06:49there are so many passengers, like right now you can see there's already a queue. And in Mumbai,
06:54there's a system wherein, you know, you outright, at the bus stop, you have two lanes of people,
07:02you know, standing. One is wherein, you know, people trying to get into and sit in the bus stop,
07:09in the buses, while there is another queue which is made to for people who can, who want to stand
07:14and travel. So, you know, there are two queues that you can see of people right here. So, there are two lanes in the queue
07:20that was formed yesterday. And this is where the entire incident really happened. And this is where
07:25the, you know, this, this, this particular place, this part shop is the one where the CCTV
07:32is located. This is where you can see in the CCTV footage, uh, you were here yesterday when the incident
07:37was moved there? What happened? What happened? What happened? What happened? What happened?
07:59foreign
08:13foreign
08:27so as you heard the you know the person who's an eyewitness of the incident because he was at that
08:36place where that ccd footage was released from this is from that shop and as he was saying that
08:41this particular incident is where you know because bus drivers also don't go slow there are a lot of
08:47people standing in different queues right here on this very footpath you can see at least two to
08:52three lines being formed for the buses you know passengers to get into the buses so there is quite
08:59a lot of congestion there's a lot of crowd in this area and as you can see the bus is almost almost
09:05on the footpath while it was you know taking a turn up so in in the midst of all this congestion
09:11certainly there is issues of planning in this area also the fact remains that you know earlier in
09:17between we had seen how best used to use smaller buses in congested areas now those smaller buses
09:24have gone in the place of these these huge buses have come in place which adds to the difficulty
09:30of maneuvering in these congested areas all right vidya thank you so much for getting us all those
09:35details right from the accident spot where a best bus mowed down four people while it was reversing
09:43remember this happened in the bhandup area which is on the outskirts of mumbai and this is a
09:47really congested area where this best bus was reversing and that is when it mowed down four
09:53people and several others are injured as well
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