NEW DELHI, April 19 A senior government official says 44 people have been killed after a bus swerved off a mountain road and plunged into a deep gorge in northern India's Himachal Pradesh state.
Rohan Chand Thakur, the district magistrate of Shimla district, says two people, including the ticket checker, survived the crash late Wednesday morning.
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The bus fell into a 200-meter (657-feet) deep gorge on the Tons river.
