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24
feared dead as bus plunges into Chenab River in J-K Srinagar:
At least 24 passengers were feared dead on Sunday morning after a bus carrying
them plunged into a swollen Chenab River after skidding off the road in Jammu
and Kashmir ’s Doda district. The incident reportedly took place, 180 kilometres
from Jammu , after the driver of the 26-seater bus, carrying over 30 passengers,
lost control of his vehicle. “Five people who jumped out of the bus in time, when
it started veering off the road, survived with minor injuries,’ a police spokesman
said. Police said chances of survival of the missing passengers were "remote".
The missing passengers could be drowned, but no dead body was recovered as the
"current of water in the river is very fast and it is swollen also", a police
officer said. According to the District police chief Prabhat Singh, the bus, with
a capacity of 26 people, rolled down 500 feet from the highway into the swollen
Chenab River in the morning. "We have no idea about the casualty as yet. But there
is very remote chance of anyone’s survival. The bus is completely submerged and
we cannot see it. The Indian Army has been pressed into rescue service, but the
rapid current and deep water are hampering the operation," Singh told media persons
here. -Jun
7, 2009 Go
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