At least 15 people were killed and 22 injured when a passenger bus fell into a deep gorge at Sherbibi near Banihal on the Jammu Srinagar national highway on Wednesday morning.A senior police officer informed that the bus was on its way to Srinagar from Jammu, when the driver lost control over the vehicle, at a sharp bend.A massive rescue and relief operation was launched immediately and the injured were shifted to the sub-district hospital in Banihal.
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Thirty five passengers, including six women were killed and seven critically injured when a bus fell into the Chenab river in Kishtwar district on Thursday. The bus, which was on its way from Jammu to Kishtwar, skidded off the road and fell into the river at Kandni-Phagumarh area at around 12.30 pm, said Himant Lohia, the Deputy Inspector general of police, Doda-Ramban-Kishtwar range.
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The mishap occurred when the bus driver tried to avert a collision with a car coming from the opposite direction near a bridge at Tendi More in Ramna, about 25 km from Garwah town.
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The bus was on its way to Udhampur town from Ramnagar when it skidded off the road and fell into the 300-ft gorge at Barman at around 1145 am.
The ravines, which are sharp, steep mud hillocks, stretch over three states - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, once home to several dreaded dacoits have long been the subject of several projects and government schemes to make them agriculturally viable.
Thirteen were injured when the bus in which they were travelling rolled down a deep gorge in Nagaland's Wokha district early Sunday morning.
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The bus in which they were travelling rolled down a gorge at Banihal in Doda district.
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Eight school children were killed and nine others wounded in a road mishap in south Kashmir's Anantnag district on Thursday afternoon. A senior police officer said the bus, which was carrying the students back home from school, fell into a deep gorge in the mountainous Shangus area of Anantnag district.
The over 3,800-km-long Brahmaputra, one of the longest rivers in the world passes through China, India and Bangladesh and has several tributaries and sub-tributaries.
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