Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered condolences to those who lost their family members in the tragic Mahanadi bridge bus accident yesterday in Odisha's Cuttack.

The PM has also wished for earliest recovery of the injured ones.

At least twelve persons, including nine men and three women, died and many others sustained injuries after a bus in which they were travelling fell off Mahanadi bridge in Cuttack yesterday. ‘Jagannath’, the ill-fated vehicle carrying over 45 passengers, was on the way to Cuttack from Talcher when accident took place.