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At least 28 Killed As Bus Plunges Into Canal In India’s Southern State

Police said they retrieved 28 bodies from the private passenger bus after it veered off the road and fell into the canal in the Mandya district of the southern state of Karnataka (Photo: Twitter @CMofKarnataka).

By: Radhakrishna N S

At least 28 people, many of them children, drowned on Saturday (24) after their bus plunged into a canal in southern Indian state Karnataka, police said, in the latest tragedy on the world’s deadliest roads. Police said they retrieved 28 bodies from the private passenger bus after it veered off the road and fell into the canal in the Mandya district of the southern state of Karnataka. A police officer at the scene told AFP that many of the victims were school children returning to their homes. “Many children are among the 28 dead,” a police official told AFP by…

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