Synopsis: Fresh CCTV footage and an investigation into Friday’s Kurnool bus fire, which killed 19 passengers, have revealed that the accident was triggered by a drunk motorcyclist whose crashed bike was left on the highway. Footage shows B Shiva Shankar buying alcohol before hitting a road divider around 3 am, which killed him instantly. Police say that if the pillion rider, Swamy, who was thrown from the bike in the crash, had moved the motorcycle before the Bengaluru-bound sleeper bus arrived, the lives of the passengers could have been saved.

New CCTV footage and a detailed police investigation have revealed how the death of a drunk biker on a dark stretch of highway set off a chain of events that led to the fiery crash of a Bengaluru-bound sleeper bus in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool

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