At least twenty-five people were killed in a horrific bus crash after a vehicle carrying wedding guests plunged off a mountain road.
The accident took place in northern India where some 45 people were traveling on a bus to attend a wedding. While passing a mountain highway in the state of Uttarakhand, the bus veered off the road and slipped into the gorge below.
According to state officials, the bus rolled at least 1,640 feet down the hillside before getting stuck in the trees.
While some 45 passengers were on the bus at the time of the accident, only twenty were rescued alive.
As of this writing, at least 25 passengers were killed in the accident, whereas the death toll may rise due to some victims being in critical condition at the time of their rescue.
“In this tragic hour my thoughts are with the bereaved families,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced after the crash as he promised “all possible assistance” to the survivors and the victims’ families.
Meanwhile, top government official Vijay Kumar Jogdande assured the involved people that a full investigation into the crash and its circumstances will be conducted.
Jogdande also promised postmortem examinations for all victims of the crash.
Uttarakhand, which is home to the Indian Himalayas, is a place of various pilgrimage sites and is notorious for fatal road accidents due to its mountainous terrain and poor road safety standards.
Back in June, more than twenty people were killed in the region after their bus veered off the road and fell into a gorge while the group was on the way to a local shrine.
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