Tirupati: The negligence of bus driver resulted in major disaster as eight including a child were killed on the spot and over 40 injured when the bus he was driving fell into a vally in the ghat section near Bhakarpet in Chittoor district in Andra Pradesh on Saturday night. The driver lost control onnthe bus while negotiating a sharp curve.

The bus carrying a wedding party from Anantapuramu district were on their way to a wedding engagement scheduled for Sunday morning.The senior police official said the driver’s negligence is believed to be the cause of the accident as he was over-speeding the vehicle and could not hold control on the vehicle while negotiating a curve in ghat zone.

As it was pitch-dark, the rescue operation took a lot of time. Tirupati Urban Superintendent of Police Ch V Appala Naidu and a team of police personnel rushed to the spot and pulled out the injured persons using ropes and shifted them to RUIA hospital in Tirupati. Later, the bodies of the deceased were extricated from the accident site.