A speeding bus exploded in a ball of flames after crashing into the central reservation on a southern Indian highway early Wednesday, killing 44 passengers as they slept.

Only five people on the vehicle escaped the inferno, including the driver and the cleaner who broke windows and fled before the fuel tank exploded, police said.

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