6 killed, 22 injured in Ladakh as school bus plunges into gorge
The bus carrying staff members of a school to a marriage ceremony rolled into the gorge about 5 km away from the Durbuk TCP.
The bus carrying staff members of a school to a marriage ceremony rolled into the gorge about 5 km away from the Durbuk TCP.
The victims include a man, two women and five children between 6 and 16 years of age, who were coming from Kishtwar, the police said.
Defence spokesman Lt. Colonel Devender Anand said that seven injured persons were flown to Jammu in a MI 17 helicopter of IAF.
Himachal witnesses an average of 3,000 road accidents each year killing over 1,000 people, according to government reports.
The bus carrying around 50 passengers was on its way from Banjar to Gadagushani area when the accident occurred.
"I could not sleep proper a night before, and was therefore sleeping on the way. It had been around an hour since we had left for Kathgodam railway station that the SUV fell into a 100-foot gorge in Nainital district. The next thing I remember was my friends and others trying to wake me up as I lay in the gorge,” Fateh said
The injured have been shifted to a sub-district hospital in Mandi for treatment.
According to the Deputy Inspector General of Police, the death toll might go up as the rescue operation was still in progress and the condition of some of the injured was stated to be 'critical'.
A team of National Disaster Management Authority and the local fire brigade had reached the spot for rescue operations.
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