At least 20 people were killed when a bus they were travelling in fell down a gorge in Ambenali Ghat region of Maharashtra’s Raigad district of India Saturday (July 28).

Around 35 staff members of the Dapoli Agriculture University were headed to Mahabaleshwar when the bus met with an accident. 

Rescue operations are underway.

One of the passengers, identified as Prakash Rajaram Savant Desai, reportedly survived the accident as he jumped from the bus.

On July 19, a similar accident had 14 lives in Uttarakhand’s Tehri district.

Source: News18

BDST: 1559 HRS, JUL 28, 2018
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