Twenty Four People Killed in Himachal Pradesh Road Accidents

File photo: Rescue workers search for victims at the site of a bus accident. (Photo: AP/Niranjan Shrestha)

• At least 24 people were killed in two road accidents in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Saturday. In both the accidents, the vehicles in which the victims were travelling fell into gorges.
  
  
• In the first accident, a car carrying 14 people it fell into the gorge near Chota Kamba in Nichar tehsil of Kinnaur district on Friday night, killing 13 of them. The lone survivor jumped out of the vehicle to escape death. The victims were returning after dropping a newlywed woman to her marital house, he said.
  
  
• In the second accident on Saturday, a bus with 29 passengers fell into a 150-feet deep gorge near Bajroli bridge on the Sainj-Chopal road in Shimla district, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others, Sub-Divisional Magistrate MR Bhardwaj said.
  
  
• Leader of Opposition and BJP member Prem Kumar Dhumal blamed the frequent road accidents on poor road conditions.
  

(With inputs from IANS.)