Nineteen people, including eight women, were killed Friday and 13 injured when a private bus carrying them skidded off a road and fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, police said.
Gross human negligence was behind the accident, said the officials.
All nineteen bodies have been recovered, Superintendent of Police Sumedha Diwedi told IANS.
The bus was carrying at least 35 passengers at the time of the accident. The police officer said the injured were being treated at hospitals in Solan and Shimla towns.
The bus, ferrying people from Purandhar to Solan town, met with the accident near Bharari village in Sangrah subdivision, 130km from district headquarters Nahan.
“The driver was throwing bottles out of the bus. This led to the driver losing control over the vehicle,” one of the survivors told the police.
Most of the accident victims came from the Nohradhar and Purandhar areas.
The government has ordered an inquiry into the accident.
Governor Urmila Singh and Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh have expressed grief over the incident.
Sirmaur is one of the most remote places in the state. This was the second major accident in the state in less than a month.
Thirty-nine people were killed when a private, overloaded bus carrying 70 passengers skidded off the road and plunged into the Beas river near Kullu town May 8.
Police records say over 800 people die every year in the state in road accidents.
Police have identified 556 accident-prone spots, including 210 on national highways. Friday 7 June 2013
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