Onlookers and rescuers gather around a bus that crashed in Jagtial district in India's southern Telangana state on Tuesday. (AFP photo)HYDERABAD, India: A bus carrying pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of south India plunged off a road on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people, officials said. The driver lost control as he tried to avoid another bus on the crowded road leading from the popular Anjaneya Swamy temple in Telangana state, said Narendar, a local official who uses only one name. Passersby rushed to help, carrying the dead and injured though thick grass and up the hill to the road. An investigation has been ordered into the cause of the accident, Narendar said.

Source: Bangkok Post September 11, 2018 09:33 UTC