At least 15 people were killed and several others injured after a bus was hit by a landslide on Tuesday (October 7) in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh, according to a local official.
The state's chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said in a post on X there was "concern that several people may be trapped under the debris and excavators were digging the area searching for survivors.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a payment of 200,000 rupees ($2,254) from the prime minister's National Relief Fund for the next of kin of each person killed in the accident and that the injured would be given 50,000 rupees.
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