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At least 36 killed as bus overturns in India

Visuals showed an overturned bus next to a river at the foot of a hill in Uttarakhand state. Officials said an investigation was underway.
At least 36 killed as bus overturns in India’s Uttarakhand state.
People at the site of a bus crash in India’s Uttarakhand state on Monday.AFP - Getty Images
/ Source: Reuters

LUCKNOW, India — At least 36 people were killed and six were injured after a bus plunged into a gorge in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Monday, an official told Reuters.

The bus was traveling from Garhwal in the Himalayas and was headed to the town of Ramnagar, with at least 42 passengers on board, local police officer Devendra Pincha said 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 on X that an inquiry would be carried out into the cause of the incident.