The recent spree of sleeper buses catching fire — the latest incident occurring on Sunday (October 26) on the Agra–Lucknow Expressway — has set alarm bells ringing in Kerala, from where an estimated 200 such buses operate daily to cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad.
While slack adherence to safety norms and an untrained crew were blamed for the October 24 sleeper bus fire in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh that claimed 20 lives, another 20 passengers succumbed to burn injuries when an AC bus was g
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