Fri, 18 Dec 2009
New Delhi - At least 15 people were killed Friday when a bus veered off the road and fell into a river in India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya, a news report said. Police and administrative officials told the IANS news agency that 34 passengers were injured when the bus fell into the river Lobo near Sonapur, about 120 kilometres north of Meghalaya's capital, Shillong.
"Till Friday afternoon, eight bodies, including that of a woman, have been recovered from the Lobo River," Manik Dey, a regional minister, told the IANS.
Officials told the news agency that the death toll was 15 although only eight bodies had been recovered so far.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
15 killed in road crash in India's north-east
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