New Delhi, President Draupadi Murmu on Saturday expressed grief over the loss of life and property in a fire in a bus in Haryana and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.

At least nine people were burnt alive and 15 injured when a moving bus caught fire in the early hours of Saturday near Tauru in Haryana's Nuh district.

The bus was carrying around 60 people, all residents of Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana in Punjab, who were returning from the pilgrimage cities of Mathura and Vrindavan. Police said that all of them are relatives.

Murmu said, "The news of the death of several passengers in the tragic incident of fire in a bus in Nuh district of Haryana is extremely saddening. I express my deepest condolences to the bereaved families and pray for the speedy recovery of all the injured." Am." A post in Hindi on X.