Two buses roll down gorge,seven dead

Two buses plunged into a gorge in separate accidents in Himachal Pradeshs Mandi district on Wednesday killing seven passengers and injuring over 50.

All five occupants of an Himachal Road Transport Corporation bus were killed when it plunged into a 500-ft deep gorge near Tattapani,SP (Mandi) Abhishaik Dullar said.

The ill-fated HRTC bus was on its way from Roddidhar to Tatapani. The dead included the driver and the conductor of the bus,Dullar said. Most of the passengers had disembarked from the bus a kilometre ahead of the accident site otherwise the casualty could have been very high.

In the other accident,two persons were killed and over 50 injured,six of them seriously,when a packed private bus rolled down into a ravine at Kuchali Nalah.

Some passengers were sitting on the roof of the bus when the accident took place,eye-witnesses said. The private bus was on its way from Mandi to Kulthani.

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