30 dead, mostly children, as India school bus plunges off cliff

• Sarwar Alam
• 09 April, 2018

By: Sarwar Alam

At least 30 people, including 27 children, were killed Monday in northern India when a school bus plunged into a deep ravine in the Himalayan foothills, police said. The bus carrying young students home in Himachal Pradesh state flew off a cliff near Nurpur, about 325 kilometres (200 miles) from the state capital Shimla, and crashed into a valley. “The bus rolled into a 200 feet (60 metre) deep gorge, killing 27 schoolchildren, two teachers and the driver,” a senior local police official, Santosh Patial, told AFP from the scene. “My first priority was to save lives. We will now…

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