25 dead after bus falls into canal in Karnataka’s Mandya district
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At least 25 people were killed when a bus in which they were travelling in fell into a canal in Karnataka’s Mandya district on Saturday.
Karnataka Deputy CM G Parameshwara told news agency ANI that 25 people have died. “I believe the driver was not driving properly, I will find out, take some more inputs”, he said while talking to this news agency.
“Over 30 people were travelling in the bus, which also had several school children,” a police officer from the office of Mandya Superintendent of Police (SP) told news agency IANS.
District officials along with locals were still recovering bodies from the canal.
Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy directed the district officials and in-charge Minister C.S. Puttaraju to monitor the rescue operations.
Published on : Nov 24, 2018 at 14:25 IST
By EP Web Desk
(With Inputs From IANS)
