BENGALURU: Jyothi S, a garment factory worker for 22 years in several garment factories in Peenya has only one thing to say, “We have always traveled in these BMTC buses, had fights with conductors whenever the fares were hiked but overall we shared a cordial relationship with the BMTC crew. But, it was a mob fury where my brethren and police torched and damaged these buses that have ferried us home safely always.”About 152 buses of the KSRTC and BMTC were damaged in a single day during the protests by garment factory workers on Hosur road and Tumkur road on Tuesday alone. This includes about 50 buses of KSRTC that were damaged, seven KSRTC buses that were set ablaze, 80 BMTC buses that were stoned and 11 including two Volvo buses that were gutted by the vandals BNS Reddy, director (security and vigilance), KSRTC calls it the most unfortunate incident in the history of KSRTC and BMTC. “There is nothing left in the charred buses and most of the KSRTC buses that were burnt and vandalized were not premium buses, hence we do not have any insurance to claim as well. They were all new buses, one or two years old,” he told TOI.Both the corporations estimate to have incurred losses to the tune of Rs 20 crores, due to the damage.