Keonjhar: Turning a wedding function sour, at least one youth was killed after a bus carrying groom party members went up in flames in Santarapur village under Ghatagaon police limits in Keonjhar district last night.
While the identification of the deceased is yet to be ascertained, he is said to be a relative of the groom.
The mishap took place at around 2 am last night, a few minutes after groom and his family arrived at home with the bride after completion of marriage in a nearby village. While all the passengers of the bus bearing Registration Number-OR 09 N 5629 had got down, the deceased youth was asleep inside it when sparks erupted.
The blaze spread very rapidly and engulfed the bus before the victim could get out of it. He was charred to death inside the vehicle.
Fire officials from Ghatagaon rushed to the spot and doused the flames latter in the night.
Police have arrived at the spot and seized the damaged bus to send the deceased for autopsy.