36 dead in bus crash in Indian Himalayas

LUCKNOW, India: A bus in India plunged into a river in a deep Himalayan ravine on Monday, killing at least 36 passengers, a government official said Monday.
“So far, 36 casualties have been confirmed,” Deepak Rawat, a senior official from the northern state of Uttarakhand told reporters. “Three critically injured have been sent to hospital using a helicopter.”
The bus was coming from Garhwal in the north and was headed to Ramnagar, with at least 42 passengers on board, Devendra Pincha, a local police officer told Reuters by phone.

 

This handout photograph taken on November 4, 2024 and released by the Department of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) Uttarakhand shows people at the site of a bus accident, after it fell into a gorge at Almora district in India’s Uttarakhand state. (AFP)

 

Visuals from ANI news agency, in which Reuters has a minority stake, showed an overturned bus lying beside a river at the base of a hill.
State Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said rescue officials were working rapidly to evacuate the injured.

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