Iwouldn’t have made it if that emergency window hadn’t opened, said 27-year-old Jayant Kushwaha, one of the passengers who escaped alive from the burning luxury bus that caught fire near Chinnatekuru village in Kurnool district early on Friday, October 24, 2025.

Over 25 passengers were reportedly charred to death and several others injured when the private bus travelling from Hyderabad to Bengaluru went up in flames after a collision.

Speaking to The Hindu from about 10 kilometres outside Kurnool, Jayant recounted the terrifying moments inside the AC sleeper coach carrying around 42 people, including the driver.

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“I was travelling alone, heading back to work in Bengaluru,” he said. “My family lives in Hyderabad. I had come home for Diwali on the 20th o

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