>JAMMU, INDIA - AT LEAST 15 people were killed and 24 others hurt, 12 of them seriously, when a bus they were in plunged into a gorge in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said.
The bus, packed with migrant workers, sped off a mountain highway into a 200-metre deep gorge, police officer Showkat Ahmed said.
Bus accidents are common on the 300-kilometre highway linking Jammu, Kashmir's winter capital, with Srinagar, the summer capital. -- AFP
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