At least 20 passengers were killed when a minibus rolled down a hilly road and fell into deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Monday, a senior police officer said.
The bus, which way on its way to Kishtwar from Keshwan, skidded off the road at Sirgwari and rolled down into the gorge around 7.30pm.
The bodies of 20 passengers have been recovered so far, IGP, Jammu, M.K. Sinha, told PTI.
Earlier, police officials had said that 24 people have been killed in the accident. Rescue operations are on, he said.
Political leaders took to Twitter to express their shock over the incident: