4 killed, 23 injured as bus falls into gorge in Bhimtal’s Saldi in Uttarakhand
Roadways bus with 27 people on board was going from Almora to Haldwani
Rescue work under way after a bus fell into a gorge near Bhimtal in Nainital district of Uttarakhand on December 25, 2024. PTI
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Four people, including a woman and a child, died and 23 got injured after a roadways bus fell into a 1,500 ft deep gorge in Bhimtal’s Saldi area on Wednesday.
The roadways bus with 27 people on board, including the driver and the conductor bus, was coming from Pithoragarh, Kumaon Commissioner Deepak Rawat said.
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Four deaths have been confirmed. The injured have been brought in ambulances to Sushila Tiwari Hospital in Haldwani, he said.
“The locals were the first to learn about the incident as is often the case. Even I came to know about it from locals,” Rawat said.
Most of the injured are in the general ward but some of them are also likely to be shifted to the ICU, he said.
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