Solan, August 21

As many as 32 passengers, including 11 women, escaped with minor injuries when an HRTC bus (HP 12 C 6631) they were travelling in rolled down a road and fell into a 200-foot gorge at Thedpura on the Joharjee-Nalagarh road today.

In the absence of a railing, the bus skidded off a link road, which had become slippery after rains in the area for the past 24 hours. Locals gathered there to help in the rescue work as soon as the news about the mishap spread. The injured were taken to a local health centre.

“The police are probing the cause of the accident and a case has been registered against the bus driver,” said Navdeep Singh, DSP, Baddi.

The injured included 10-year-old Arushi and 16-year-old Vishnu, who hail from local villages in Kasauli tehsil. Other persons who received minor injuries hailed from Kasauli and Arki tehsils besides migrants from Uttar Pradesh. — TNS