{"id":24779,"date":"2023-11-15T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/at-least-30-people-killed-in-bus-crash-in-held-kashmir\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T10:00:07","slug":"at-least-30-people-killed-in-bus-crash-in-held-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/at-least-30-people-killed-in-bus-crash-in-held-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 30 people killed in bus crash in held Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least 30 people were killed in Indian-occupied Kashmir on Wednesday when a passenger bus skidded off a mountainous road and plunged into a deep gorge, police said.<\/p>\n

The accident took place on a remote road in the Doda area, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) southeast of the region\u2019s capital Srinagar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirty passengers have died in the accident, caused by the driver\u2019s negligence by hitting the crash bar of the road,\u201d senior police officer Sunil Gupta told AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bus tumbled down the mountain some 250 metres (800 feet),\u201d he said, adding that more than 25 people were also injured in the crash.<\/p>\n

A video clip from the site showed a grisly scene of several dead bodies, as rescuers tried to help the injured.<\/p>\n

Police said they feared the death toll could rise, with many badly hurt.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the accident was \u201cdistressing\u201d and offered his \u201ccondolences to the families who have lost their near and dear ones\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pray that the injured recover at the earliest,\u201d he said on social media, adding that government compensation of more than $2,400 would be offered to the next of kin of those killed, and $600 to those injured.<\/p>\n

\u2018Anguished\u2019<\/h2>\n

Home Minister Amit Shah said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that he was \u201cdeeply anguished to learn about the loss of precious lives\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe local administration is conducting the rescue operation in the gorge where the bus had the accident,\u201d Shah added.<\/p>\n

Accidents are common on India\u2019s vast network of roads, which are often poorly maintained.<\/p>\n

The country accounts for 11 per cent of the global road death toll, despite having just one percent of the world\u2019s vehicles, according to a World Bank report<\/a> released in 2021.<\/p>\n

The same report estimated 150,000 car crash fatalities in India annually \u2014 or one every four minutes \u2014 causing road crashes that cost the Indian economy around $75 billion each year, the report added.<\/p>\n

Medical expenses and loss of income push many accident survivors into poverty.<\/p>\n

In May, at least 21 people died<\/a> when a bus veered off a bridge in India, reportedly after the driver fell asleep at the wheel.<\/p>\n

In July, 25 people were killed<\/a> and eight others injured in western India when a bus crashed and caught fire on an expressway.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The accident took place on a remote road in the Doda area, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) southeast of the region\u2019s capital Srinagar. \u201cThirty passengers have died […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/1514500844077d8.jpg?r=145137","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}