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33 people killed in road accident in northern India

At least 33 people were killed and 27 injured, 20 seriously, when a passenger bus skidded off the road and rolled down a deep gorge while negotiating a curve on April 2 in Indian-administered Kashmir's Poonch district.


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At least 33 people were killed and 27 injured, 20 seriously, when a passenger bus skidded off theroad and rolled down a deep gorge while negotiating a curve on April 2 in Indian-administered Kashmir's Poonch district.

The Press Trust of India reported from Kashmir that 20 people died on the spot, and 13 succumbed to injuries on way to hospital.

The accident occurred at Jandoral village in Mandi Tehsil of the district when the driver of the overloaded passenger bus, proceeding from Sathra to Gali Pindi, was negotiating a curve. Thevehicle skidded off the road and rolled down the gorge.

Civil and army rescue teams rushed to the spot and extricated the dead and injured from the gorge. Army ambulances shifted the injured to the district hospital in Poonch, the report said.

This is the second such mishap in the area in the last five days. On march 29, 33 people were killed and several injured when a bus rolled down a gorge in Loran area of Poonch district.

Source: Xinhua


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