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.
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.
