A 25-year-old man from Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh, survived the Kurnool bus fire that killed 19 passengers. Moolinti Venugopal Reddy, who boarded the sleeper coach at Paradise Junction in Hyderabad, acted quickly smashing the rear window and jumped out of the burning bus.
A 50-year-old farmer, narrowly escaped the Kurnool bus inferno that killed 19 passengers. Returning to Bengaluru after Diwali celebrations, Reddy recalled waking up around 2.30 am to thick smoke and chaos as passengers screamed and tried to escape.