SRINAGAR, India — A bus plunged into a 45-meter-deep (150-foot-deep) gorge in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Sunday, killing at least 16 Hindu pilgrims and injuring more than two dozen as they travelled to a cave shrine in the Himalayas, police said. Vaid said the bus swerved off a mountain road, but the cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Some landslides caused a heavy traffic jam on the main highway linking Srinagar with the rest of India. Police figures show India has the world’s deadliest roads, with more than 110,000 people killed each year in crashes. Driver fatigue and negligence, low-quality roads and poor vehicle maintenance are the usual causes of such accidents in India.

Source: National Post July 16, 2017 10:14 UTC