35 killed as bus falls into river

Doda (Jammu & Kashmir), Feb 25 (PTI) Thirty-five
passengers were killed and 13 others injured, some of them
seriously, when a bus rolled down into Neeru river in Doda
district in India's northern state of Jammu and Kashmir
Wednesday.

The bus skidded off the road and rolled down into the
river at Nalti-Galgandhar at 0815 hours IST, police said.

Soon after the accident, rescue teams rushed to the
scene and extricated the bodies.

While 33 bodies were recovered from the place of
mishap, two died in a hospital in Jammu, they said adding six
other injured were hospitalised in Doda.

Nine of the 13 injured have been airlifted to
Government Medical College (GMC) hospital here.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
expressed grief over the accident and asked authorities to
provide best medicare facilities to the injured.

People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti
and former Chief Minister Mufti sayeed also expressed grief
over the accident.

The accident also figured in the state assembly with
MLA Inderwal G M Saroori demanding adequate measures to check
rising number of such accidents in Doda and Kishtwar
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