A private travel bus was engulfed in flames in Telangana’s Medak district early Monday morning. The incident occurred on National Highway 44 near Masaipet when the bus, en route from Medak to Hyderabad, caught fire around 4 a.m. Fortunately, there were no passengers onboard at the time, and the driver and another individual onboard managed to escape unharmed upon noticing the fire.
Firefighters promptly responded to the scene and extinguished the blaze, with the bus driver safely getting away after the fire erupted. Authorities are currently investigating the cause of the fire, with a case already registered by the police.
In recent months, both Telangana and neighboring Andhra Pradesh have witnessed a string of bus accidents. One tragic incident in Andhra Pradesh’s Markapuram district on March 26 resulted in 14 fatalities and 15 injuries when a private travel bus collided with a tipper truck and caught fire. Similarly, on October 24, 2025, a private bus accident near Kurnool town claimed the lives of 19 individuals after the bus caught fire following a collision with a motorbike on the road.
Moreover, another devastating bus-truck collision in Telangana’s Rangareddy district on November 3, 2025, led to 19 fatalities and 24 injuries. The collision involved a tipper truck loaded with gravel crashing into a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC) bus carrying 72 passengers from Tandur to Hyderabad.
