Thirty-three passengers were feared killed after a private bus carrying employees of Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth,
Dapoli plunged into a 500-feet-deep gorge at Ambenali ghat area in Poladpur in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Saturday morning. They were travelling to Mahabaleshwar. The rescue teams are busy in recovering the bodies. Only one person who was thrown out from the window of the bus was saved in the accident.
The passengers on the bus, all employees of Dapoli Agriculture University in Ratnagiri district, were on their way to Mahabaleshwar for a two-day trip. The incident came to light after the lone survivor, Prakash Sawant Desai, assistant superintendent with the University, who managed to jump out of the bus, climbed up the slope, took the phone of a passerby and made calls to police another staff member from university and the police.
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According to Prakash Sawant-Desai, the lone survivor from the bus, the driver of the bus turned back for a second to talk with passengers and the bus fell in the gorge. the steep slope of the gorge.
Desai has told the local authorities that the driver of the bus lost control as a tyre of the bus skidded at a muddy spot on the Ambenali Ghat road. The bus fell till 500 feet down in the 800 feet deep gorge.
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