NEW DELHI, June 24 (UPI) -- A passenger bus went out of control and fell into a gorge Wednesday in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 25 people, officials said.
The bus was traveling from Katra to Udhampur in the mountainous region when the driver lost control of the vehicle, CNN reported quoting Sanjeev Verma, a senior district officer.
The accident occurred near the town of Panthal, about 124 miles south of the provincial capital Srinagar. The bus rolled down into the gorge, the report said.
"So far we have recovered 25 bodies and rescued 43 injured persons, of whom two are critical. We have evacuated the injured to (a) hospital," Verma told CNN.
In another bus accident June 7 near the district where Wednesday's crash occurred, 19 people died but their bodies have yet to be recovered from a river, the report said.
