Two persons were electrocuted and 10 others were injured after a private bus caught fire after coming in contact with a hanging wire in Jaipur's Manoharpur area on Tuesday, police said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Tejpal Singh said the bus was carrying labourers from Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit to a brick kiln in Manoharpur.
Singh added that the gas cylinders and other household items kept on the top of the bus touched the high tension line when the bus was passing from an internal 'kaccha' road near a village in Manoharpur.
The bus is believed to have touched an overhead 11,000-volt power line, triggering a surge of electricity that caused sparks and set the vehicle ablaze.
The fire was later doused and the injured were rushed to a government hospital in Shahpura.
Six of the injured were later referred to SMS hospital in Jaipur with burn injuries, while some were given primary treatment in Shahpura.
Some of the labourers managed to jump out of the bus.
Deputy chief minister and Transport Minister Prem Chand Bairwa said a probe will be launched into the incident.
(With inputs from PTI)
