Five people, including a 16-year-old, died after a car fell into a ravine in the Chauhar valley of Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, police confirmed on Sunday.
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Two individuals lost their lives and 20 others were injured when a private bus returning from a religious site lost control and plunged into a ravine on the Balrampur road in the Dheberua police station area.
Seven members of a family were killed after the car they were traveling in fell into a canal near Mundri in Haryana's Kaithal district on Saturday, police said.
C R Kesavan, the National spokesperson of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) condemned the Congress-led Himachal Government on Wednesday over the non-payment of salaries of state government employees.
"Today at 2 am, we received a call that one car has plunged into a river. The fire station staff immediately reached here. A car had plunged into the river. A woman who was there in the car during the incident said that a male companion was also there with her," said the official.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis expressed his condolences on the death of Indian passengers after a bus bearing a number plate of Uttar Pradesh plunged into a river in Nepal, killing 14 in the process on Friday.
A Nepal police official said that the passenger bus with an Uttar Pradesh number plate that plunged into a river in Nepal's Tanahun district on Friday had originated from Gorakhpur and was carrying tourists from India
Rupandehi District Police Office Spokesperson DSP Manohar Bhatta told ANI over phone that the bus entered Nepal from Belahiya check-point in Rupandehi on August 20 with an eight-day permit.