A bus with Hindu pilgrims onboard collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders in eastern India, killing the religious devotees. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the accident "extremely tragic.

The incident occurred as a bus ferrying Hindu pilgrims collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders, say officials.

In June, a sudden crowd surge at a Hindu festival in the coastal state of Odisha triggered a stampede that killed at least three people and injured several others. The previous month saw six people crushed to death in the western state of Goa after thousands gathered for a popular fire-walking ritual.