India bus crash kills 30 passengers

Published: Nov. 6, 2009 at 8:02 AM

NEW DELHI, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- An overcrowded passenger bus crashed into a ravine Friday in India, killing at least 30 passengers, police said.

Forty-eight other passengers were injured in the incident near Haripur in the northern mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, the Press Trust of India reported.

The bus was traveling to Dehra from Nagrota Suriyan when its driver lost control of the vehicle which then plunged into a 100-foot deep ravine, a police official said.

The injured were taken to a nearby hospital. Rescue workers at the scene said the death toll was expected to rise.

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