At least 22 people were killed and several others critically injured when a bus fell into a deep gorge in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia hills district on India in the wee hours on Wednesday.
According to Press Trust of India, the incident took place sometime between 3 am and 5 am at Tamseng village near Meghalaya-Aassam border.
The bus was on its way to Agartala from Guwahati when it fell into the 80-feet deep gorge.
“We have been able to retrieve 22 bodies even as six critically injured persons were shifted to Khliehriat community health centre”, PTI quoted a district police chief M K Dkhar as saying.
“There are possibilities of more deaths and the district police and fire service personnel are on the job to rescue the trapped persons in the bus”, he said.
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