India, Dec. 31 -- Kurla resident Rahimunisa Khan watched, almost compulsively, videos of Monday night's accident at Bhandup in which a BEST bus ploughed into a queue of passengers, killing 4. With each watch, the 30-year-old, revived her own trauma from last December when another BEST bus had similarly rammed into a throng of pedestrians at Kurla, killing 9, including her father and injuring her, her mother and her daughter.

Like Khan's father, the victims of Monday night's accidents were also from Mumbai's working class, men and women who were their family's providers. Varsha Sawant, 25, worked was a nurse at the Sion Municipal Hospital. On Monday, she returned from her cousin's wedding at her village in Satara ahead of the rest of the ...