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Over 30 feared killed in bus accident in India

Updated: 2012-09-11 10:41

(Xinhua)

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NEW DELHI - More than 30 people were feared killed as a bus skidded off road and fell into a 500-feet-deep gorge Monday evening in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, local media reported Tuesday.

The 42-seat bus, ferrying passengers from Palampur to Asha Puri, a village known for a hilltop shrine, was overcrowded.

A joint rescue operation by police and the army is underway, said Indo-Asian News Service.

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