At least 22 passengers died after a private bus they were travelling in lost balance on a bridge and fell into Banas river in Malarna Dungar area of Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district on Saturday.
The accident occurred around 7:30am when the driver of the 34-seater bus from Madhya Pradesh was trying to overtake another vehicle.
The passengers were coming from Lalsot in Dausa to visit Ramdevra.
Nearly 22 bodies were fished out from the bus after cutting the windows by a gas cutter and kept in mortuary of the district hospital. More than a dozen injured were rushed to nearby hospitals for treatment.
Ambulances have been called in to rush the injured and bodies to hospitals, said district collector Kailash Chand Verma who along with superintendent of police Maman Singh reached the spot to oversee rescue operation.
All private hospitals have also been alerted to admit the injured. The bus was brought out from the river by a crane. Locals had also gathered at the site and helped in rescue operation.