Bengaluru, Dec. 26 -- What began as a regular long-distance journey for Rafiq quickly turned into a nightmare as the sleeper bus he was driving turned into an inferno soon after being hit by a speeding container truck in Chitradurga district of Karnataka in the early hours on Thursday. Rafiq, who is recovering in a hospital, said he had little memory of how he survived. The truck was coming from the opposite direction at high speed, he recalled. "I was maintaining a speed of 60 to 70 kilometres per hour. I saw the vehicle coming from the front. I know only the vehicle hitting the bus," he said. The driver said he tried to regain control when he saw the truck veer toward him. "I tried to control the bus on seeing the vehicle approaching from the opposite direction. My bus even touched the other vehicle moving next to us. I do not know what vehicle it was. But I could not control it," he said. Sachin, the driver of the other vehicle, a bus carrying 42 children, said the truck rammed into the middle portion of Rafiq's bus. "It hit the diesel tank. I tried to control my vehicle and managed to steer it to the left and stop it... nobody was injured in my vehicle," he said. Sachin, who took part in the rescue efforts despite sustaining a head injury, recounted an horrifying moment after the bus burst into flames. "One of the women I saved was pleading with me to save her child who was inside the bus. Unfortunately, nobody could go towards the bus as the flames had spread rapidly," he said....