: Police stated Wednesday that a jammed door was the primary reason for the high number of casualties in the AC sleeper bus fire near Jaisalmer. The process of verifying the identities of the deceased is currently underway.

Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma personally reviewed the rescue and medical response, and called the incident “deeply tragic”.

Twenty passengers were burnt alive and 15 others sustained critical burn injuries after the private bus travelling to Jodhpur Tuesday afternoon caught fire, barely 10 minutes after it left Jaisalmer.

Kailash Dan, Additional SP, Jaisalmer, said the fire caused the bus door to get locked, preventing passengers from escaping.

“Most of the bodies were found in the aisle of the bus, which shows that people tried to escape but couldn’t because the

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