According to the police, 61 people, including two drivers and 59 tourists were travelling in the bus when the accident took place on Saturday allegedly due to the carelessness of the driver.
According to police, the bus was on its way from Coonoor to Tenkasi when it met with the accident. The passengers who were onboard the bus were returning home from a tour in Ooty.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday announced ex-gratia of Rs two lakh to the next of kin of the deceased, who died in a bus accident in Tamil Nadu's Marapalam.
A pilgrim died while several others were injured after a tourist bus collided with a vehicle in Bihar's Kaimur district on Friday morning, said an official.
The police further said that the injured were admitted to a hospital for treatment while seriously injured people were sent to Palanpur Civil Hospital.
The accident was so severe that the conductor's side of the bus sustained extensive damage, and the school principal, who was seated there, died on the spot.
"The two women who died in the incident were hit by the KSRTC bus driver while he reversing the vehicle at the bus stop in Tumkuru. Several people were trying to board the bus when the accident took place," said police.
A total of ten people were injured after a private travel bus overturned on National Highway 65 near the suburb of Thotacharla village in the NTR district, an official said on Friday.
According to Ottapalam MLA, K Premkumar, the Kozhikode-bound passenger bus from Chennai overturned at Thiruvazhiyode at Vellinezhi Village around 8 am.
The bus, en route to Beni-hilly district, some 300 kms away from Kathmandu, met with the accident at Gajuri which is situated approximately 60 kms away far from the capital.
Two people were killed and many others were injured including the driver when an Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus carrying 28 passengers plunged into the valley in the state's Alluri district, state Industries Minister Gudivada Amarnath said on Sunday evening.