Nine children died and eight were seriously injured as a school van, carrying 18 children, rolled down a gorge in Kangsali of Tehri Garhwal.News agency ANI quoted an official of the Disaster Mitigation And Management Centre in Tehri Garhwal saying that a team of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has been rushed to the spot. The injured have been shifted to a hospital, it added.
ANI also reported that five passengers were killed and several feared trapped when a boulder fell on their bus at Lambagad slide zone on the Badrinath Highway.Efforts to rescue the trapped people was underway, it said, and a police team was also present at the spot.
More details are awaited.
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