A fresh video of a biker seemingly drunk and riding the two-wheeler in a reckless manner has gone viral, with posts suggesting it was him due to whom 20 people lost their lives in the tragic Andhra bus fire. The video shows two people on a bike reaching at a fuel station for, perhaps, petrol refueling. This comes after a biker’s body was also found from the spot and the cause of fire was also the blaze triggered by the bike.

The CCTV footage of the petrol pump, timestamped, Oct 24 at 2:22 am, shows the pillion getting off, and later the rider as well. None of them is wearing a helmet. They talk for a while, walk to a certain distance and then the rider returns. 

He starts the bike, and suddenly swirls as if he was under the influence of alcohol and not able to handle the bike.

As of now, the cops have not confirmed if the person is linked to the fire. Though probe has revealed that a bike was the reason the bus caught fire in the first place. 

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What happened to the Andhra bus?

As many as 19 passengers travelling in the private bus and a motor bike rider were charred to death after it collided with the two-wheeler at Chinnatekuru village of Kurnool district. Forty-four passengers were travelling on the bus. According to a PTI report, the driver of the Bengaluru-bound bus had escaped the inferno by jumping out through the passenger door and failed to gauge the situation, a police official said.

Both the driver, Miriyala Lakshmaiah (42) and the additional driver are in police custody and a case was filed regarding the incident on Friday.

“Once the fire started (and) the bus came to a halt, through the passenger door he (Lakshmaiah) jumped out. He did not understand the intensity,” Kurnool superintendent of police Vikrant Patil told PTI.

He said that after escaping the raging fire, Lakshmaiah woke up the additional driver sleeping in the luggage rack at the bottom portion of the bus between the front and rear wheels. They together started breaking the window panes with a rod used to change tyres, to allow passengers to escape the blaze, Patil said.

However, the fire continued to rage and engulf the entire bus, prompting the scared Lakshmaiah to flee the spot. Now he has been booked for negligence and over speeding.

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The cause of accident

Police said the bus caught fire after colliding with the two-wheeler and that the blaze was triggered after the motor bike, with its fuel cap open, was dragged underneath the vehicle. The cops added the bus belonging to V Kaveri Travels with registration number DD 01 N 9490 is not registered in the southern state.

Patil noted that it was registered in the Union Territory of Daman and Diu but enjoyed an all-India permit to engage in business in Andhra Pradesh.