<span style="color: #222222;">In Karnataka, five people including three children and two women were charred to death when a private bus caught fire in the early morning today. Many passengers have sustained burn injuries in the incident.<br />''<br />''The police sources informed that the incident took place when the bus was parked on the road side at K R Halli gate in Hiriyur taluk of Chitradurga district. The bus was on its way from Vijayapura to Bengaluru. The injured have been shifted to a District Government Hospital in Hiriyur and police have registered an FIR to take up further investigation.</span><br />