Jaipur, March 15: At least 26 students were killed and 34 injured when a bus plunged off a bridge into a dry river bed in India’s western desert state of Rajasthan, police said.
The bus collided with a stationary vehicle and fell off the bridge, Vikas Kumar, the local police superintendent, said.
“All the victims were students from a teachers’ training institute,” he said.
The bus, which had 62 passengers on board, was returning from Hindu pilgrimage sites in Uttar Pradesh state when the accident occurred.
India has the highest annual road death toll in the world, bigger than the more populous China, according to the World Health Organisation, with accidents caused by speeding, bad roads, overcrowding and poor vehicle maintenance.
Police figures show that more than 110,000 people die annually nationwide on the roads.
—Agencies