India, Nov. 24 -- Five people were killed while several others injured after a bus carrying around 28 passengers fell into a 70-metre-deep gorge near Kunjapuri-Hindolakhal in the Narendranagar area of Uttarakhand's Tehri district on Monday, said officials. The rescue operation is underway, officials said.

According to State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) officials, the district control room informed the SDRF Corps Control Room about the accident on Monday afternoon, stating that the vehicle had skidded off the road in the Narendranagar police station limits. The bus was initially believed to be carrying 30 to 35 people.

Acting on the alert, SDRF deployed five teams from Post Dhalwala, Post Koti Colony and the SDRF Corps Headquarters to ...