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10 dead after bus slides off bridge in India

After a bus slid off a bridge and into a gorge, at least ten people died.

When the bus plunged off the bridge and into a gorge in the Himalayas on Tuesday, it was transporting Hindu pilgrims to a shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Police in the area said the bus was overcrowded and that the crash also left 55 other people hurt.

When it crashed into the canyon outside Jammu, the bus was heading from Amritsar in the northern state of Punjab towards Katra.

A crane was used to retrieve the crumpled bus from the gorge, watched by a crowd of onlookers.

They were visiting the shrine of Vaishno Devi, which is highly revered by Hindus and sees hundreds of thousands of people visit every year.

Police officer Chandan Kohli said the dead were from India’s Bihar state, but individuals have not yet been named publicly.

India has some of the highest road death rates in the world, with thousands of people killed and injured annually.

Most crashes are blamed on reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and old vehicles.

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