Bus Plunge Kills 65 in India
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JAMMU, India — A bus toppled into a gorge in northern India today when the driver lost control while trying to negotiate a curve covered by a landslide. A senior police official said all 65 people aboard died.
Sixty-three people died immediately, and two who survived the plunge into the 650-foot-deep gorge north of Jammu later died in a hospital, Deputy Inspector of Police S. S. Ali said. The bus, which was authorized to carry only 42 passengers, was traveling toward Kishtwar from Jammu, winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir state north of New Delhi.
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