PTI

Pauri (U’khand), October 5

In all, 33 members of a marriage celebration had been killed and 19 injured when a bus carrying them fell right into a gorge in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district, the police stated on Wednesday.

The tragedy struck round 7 pm on Tuesday because the bus, which was on its technique to Kanda village in Bironkhal from Laldhang city in Haridwar, plunged into the 500-m deep gorge close to Simri bend.

Local villagers had been the primary to succeed in the spot and used cell phone flashlights to search for the victims within the evening earlier than help arrived.

There had been over 50 individuals within the bus. Rescue operations had been carried out all through the intervening evening and on Wednesday, the police stated.

In all, 31 our bodies had been retrieved whereas two injured succumbed on technique to the hospital taking the toll to 33, State Disaster Relief Force (SDRF) in-charge Vikas Ramola stated, including the rescue operation had come to an finish.

Twenty individuals injured within the accident had been pulled out and rushed to hospitals in Bironkhal, Rikhnikhal and Kotdwar, the police stated.

Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who together with former Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank arrived for an on-the-spot evaluation of the scenario, met the individuals hospitalised in Kotdwar.

He introduced Rs 2 lakh every for the subsequent of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for the injured.