Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- At least 10 people lost their lives, and 19 others sustained injuries when a car carrying Maha Kumbh devotees from Chhattisgarh collided with a bus on the Prayagraj-Mirzapur highway in Uttar Pradesh around midnight on Friday.

According to DCP Yamunanagar Vivek Chandra Yadav, the victims' bodies were sent to Swaroop Rani Nehru Medical Hospital for post-mortem, and necessary legal procedures were underway.

The accident occurred around 2am near the Meja police station in Prayagraj when a Bolero car, transporting devotees from Korba in Chhattisgarh to the Sangam for a holy dip, crashed into a bus carrying pilgrims from Rajgarh, Madhya Pradesh.

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