13 returning from Bihar injured as bus overturns

Jalpaiguri: Thirteen migrant workers returning from Bihar to Cooch Behar and Assam were injured when the bus they were travelling in overturned at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district early on Sunday.
The bus, which had set out on Saturday with 30 migrant workers, overturned while approaching Moranga Choupathi on National Highway 27. The 13 injured were taken to Dhupguri block hospital.Four of them were later referred to Jalpaiguri super-speciality hospital.
Ranjit Mahali, an injured worker from Cooch Behar, said: “We were working in a brick factory in Bihar and had arranged the bus on our own to return home.” The driver of the bus was drunk, he said.
Jalpaiguri ASP (rural) Dendup Shepra said: “None of the 30 suffered major injuries.”
The Jalpaiguri district administration later arranged to send the workers home.