At least seven people, including drivers and passengers, were badly injured when two private buses collided on the Howrah bridge on Thursday morning, police said.
The collision took place around 9.30am when two buses of route numbers 24 and 59 banged into each other between pillars 7 and 8 of the bridge, they said.
“All the injured people are undergoing treatment at a nearby hospital. We are trying to find out whether the accident is due to a technical glitch or something else,” according to a police official.
Drug bust at Kolkata nightclub
Two young men were arrested from a nightclub in Kolkata's Tiljala area during a party, police said on Thursday.
The accused, in their early 20s, were arrested during a raid by the Kolkata Police's Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday night.
"A polythene containing around 245 gm of ecstasy tablets were seized from them," a police officer said.
A case has been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, he said.