At least 36 people were killed after a passenger bus of Garwal Motors Users’ fell into a gorge near Uttarakhand’s Kupi in Ramnagar at Pauri-Almora border on Monday morning.
Sources told CNN News18 said that the bus was overloaded and had around 40 passengers.
Among those killed were mostly children, they said.
The bus was going from Garhwal to Kumaon when the fell into a 200-metre-deep gorge at Marchula in Almora, District Magistrate Alok Kumar Pandey said.
Others are feared trapped inside the bus and the rescue operation is being carried out by police and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) to bring them out safely.
A report by IndiaToday quoted Salt Sub-District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar as saying that the passengers who have been rescued were rushed to nearby hospital.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that instructions have been given to airlift seriously injured passengers if required.
“Very sad news has been received about the casualties of passengers in the unfortunate bus accident that took place in Marchula of Almora district. The district administration has been instructed to carry out relief and rescue operations swiftly,” he said in a post on X in Hindi.
“The local administration and SDRF teams at the accident site are working rapidly to evacuate the injured and take them to the nearest health center for treatment. Instructions have also been given to airlift seriously injured passengers if required,” he added in his post.
With inputs from agencies.
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22, including children, killed as ‘overloaded’ bus falls into gorge in Uttarakhand’s Almora
