India, Dec. 31 -- Two days after four people lost their lives and 11 others were injured when a BEST bus hit several people outside Bhandup railway station, local police and officials from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday cleared the area of illegal hawkers who had taken over footpaths.

The operation was conducted from 10am till 2pm, and around 10-15 hawkers who were selling vegetables and flowers were ordered to clear their stalls and leave the area, said Balasaheb Pawar, senior police inspector, Bhandup police station.

"We had cleared the area of hawkers on Tuesday as well. Today, we warned them not to return and encroach on the footpath again," Pawar said. "The road outside the station is congested and such s...