India, Dec. 30 -- At least four people died and nine were injured when a Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) bus reversed into passengers who had queued up to catch a bus outside the Bhandup railway station at 10.05pm on Monday.

According to preliminary reports, the driver, 52-year-old Santosh Ramesh Sawant, was trying to take a U-turn to go into the adjacent bus depot when he accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes, and rammed into the queue. "I heard the sound of a huge crash and ran out of my shop to see some people lying injured on the road; the bus too had been damaged," said Bholanath Gupta who runs a farsan shop next to the bus depot.

The shop owners in the vicinity were among the firs...