India, June 17 -- A Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) bus was stranded for over one-and-half hours near Thakurdwar junction in south Mumbai on Monday morning after the road beneath its rear left tyre caved in. The incident occurred close to the under-construction Girgaon station on the Metro 3 route and officials from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) roads department are working on rectifying the problem, said sources in the civic body.

According to BEST officials, the single-decker airconditioned bus is owned by Tata Motors, a wet lease operator with the undertaking, and it plies on route number 121 from Backbay Depot to J Mehta Road. Around 9.30am, when the bus was passing through Babasaheb Jaykar Marg, a ...