Mysore/Mysuru, Sept. 29 -- Flung from bus on Friday, found on Saturday

In a shocking incident, an elderly man who was thrown out of a KSRTC City Bus during a freak accident on Chamundi Hill Road, was found dead nearly 17 hours later - lying unnoticed just a few feet away from crash site.

The accident occurred on Friday (Sept. 26) around 5 pm, when the bus, ferrying passengers downhill, brushed past a retaining wall before colliding with two oncoming cars and electric poles. About 15 people, including bus passengers and occupants of cars, were injured and rushed to a hospital.

One passenger, however, was missing - Chikkabasavegowda (72), a retired Excise Department Inspector and a native of Hangala village in Gundlupet taluk, who was re...