jennifer
01-21-2008, 05:04 AM
At least 37 people, including four children, are feared killed, and about 36 others injured when a bus carrying devotees returning from the Saptshringi shrine in Nashik fell into a gorge late on Sunday night.
Police say the luxury bus belonging to a private company was returning from the shrine in Nandurigaon when it fell into a gorge.
''We were going to Mumbai, the bus overturned while taking a turn I do not know how it happened,'' said a victim's relative.
According to passengers the brakes failed, the driver jumped out and the bus plunged into a gorge. Villagers from in and around used bedsheets to bring out the injured, most of the passengers were from Mumbai's Worli area...Read... (http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080039068&ch=1/21/2008%209:04:00%20AM)
Police say the luxury bus belonging to a private company was returning from the shrine in Nandurigaon when it fell into a gorge.
''We were going to Mumbai, the bus overturned while taking a turn I do not know how it happened,'' said a victim's relative.
According to passengers the brakes failed, the driver jumped out and the bus plunged into a gorge. Villagers from in and around used bedsheets to bring out the injured, most of the passengers were from Mumbai's Worli area...Read... (http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080039068&ch=1/21/2008%209:04:00%20AM)