Five killed, 10 injured as bus falls into gorge

Monday, September 3, 2007, 18:36 [IST]

Hazaribagh, Sep 3 (UNI) Five people were killed and ten injured when a passenger bus fell into a twenty-feet deep gorge at Hathia Baba Ghati under Chouparan police station in this district of Jharkhand today.

Police said while four persons died on the spot, one succumbed to injuries on way to hospital. The injured had been rushed to the Sadar hospital.

Three of the deceased belonged to Chatra district of Jharkhand and one to Patna in Bihar.

The bus was on way to Bihar's Aurangabad district.

UNI

Topics: ACCIDENT-JHARKHAND-BUS

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