Day after bus tragedy,one more body found

The other two bodies recovered on Wednesday were that of Neeraj Kumar,a resident of Uttar Pardesh who was on his way to Jalandhar and that of Dr Veerish Kumar,a professor at the National Institute of Technology in Jalandhar.

With a large number of passengers still missing (the bus was carrying 27 people),the police control rooms at Fategarh Sahib have been flooded with calls from concerned relatives. Among the callers was Raj Kumar from Rajasthan,whose brother Viras Kumar was on the bus. One call from Aligarh was for 22-year-old Yash,who worked as a mehndi vendor in Jalandhar.

His relatives have told police that he has tattooed his name on his arm and chest.

While Raj Kumar Yadav from Bihar is sure that his younger brother Umesh was on the bus having boarded it at Delhi,Dilbagh Singh from Varunpur village suspects that his brother Harjit Singh may have been on the bus as he is yet to reach home after leaving from Delhi. Harjit,Dilbagh said,had boarded a bus in Delhi and is yet to reach home.

Bus stopped at Pipli at 11.45 pm

Information has revealed that the ill-fated bus had stopped at a dhabha in Pipli at 11.45 pm on Tuesday night. The dhabha owner,however,could not guess the number of passengers as he said many of them ate at other dhabhas on the same road.