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At least 18 people were killed on Friday and an equal number
injured when a private bus carrying passengers skidded off the road and
fell into a 500-feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district,
police said.
Eighteen bodies have been recovered, Superintendent of Police Sumedha Diwedi said.
The
bus was carrying at least 35 passengers on board at the time of the
accident, and many have been injured. The police officer said the
injured were being treated at hospitals in Rajgarh and Solan towns.
The
bus, ferrying passengers from Punardhar to Solan town, met with the
accident near Bharari village in Sangrah subdivision, some 130 km from
district headquarters Nahan.
Sirmaur is one of remotest places in
the state. Buses plying there have poor frequency, and the scarcity of
means of transport often leads of overcrowding of vehicles. |
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