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At least 25 people were killed after a bus carrying wedding guests veered off the road and fell into a deep gorge in northern India, police said on Wednesday.
The vehicle was travelling along a treacherous mountain highway in Pauri, Uttarakhand, when it careened over an edge and plunged at least 500m into a gorge, with around 45 people onboard.
"Twenty people have been rescued," the state's top police official Ashok Kumar told AFP.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that "all possible assistance" would be given to the survivors.
"In this tragic hour my thoughts are with the bereaved families," he tweeted on Wednesday.
Fatal road accidents are common in Uttarakhand, which encompasses part of the Indian Himalayas, and is home to numerous religious pilgrimage sites.
Nearly two dozen people were killed in June, when their bus plunged into a gorge en route to a shrine to the Hindu deity Yamuna, north of the state capital Dehradun.
India accounts for 11 per cent of the global road death toll, despite only having one percent of the world's vehicles, according to a World Bank report released last year.
The same report estimated 150,000 car crash fatalities in India annually: one person every four minutes.
It added that road crashes cost the Indian economy around $75 billion each year, with medical expenses and loss of income driving many accident survivors into poverty.
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