At least 10 people, including three women, died and 38 others sustained injuries when the bus they were travelling in fell into a gorge on Tyuni-Chakrata Highway at Vikasnagar, around 80 km from Dehradun at Daragar in Chakrata, on Tuesday. The injured have been admitted at local hospitals in Tyuni and Vikasnagar.
Soon after the tragic accident, Dehradun District Magistrate Ravinath Raman formed a team comprising disaster management department officials and doctors, surgeon Dr RCS Rawat and two orthopedics, Dr KR Swain and Dr Abhishek. The team was rushed to the accident site on a chopper. According to an official, the seriously injured would be airlifted to Jolly Grant Hospital.
The ill-fated bus was travelling from Tyuni via Chakrata to Dehradun. There were around 48 passengers in the bus which slipped into a deep gorge at Darhat as the driver lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a sharp bend. locals informed the police about the accident.
Nine of the deceased have been identified as Devendra (20), resident of Bagla Chuli; Khushiram (28), resident of Chakrata; Bhoti Devi (36), resident of Byaunra; Chetram (63), resident of Byunra; Kumari Chanda (20), resident of Kuachuli; Kishan Chandra (26), native of Solan Himachal; Kiusu (40), resident of Bagla Chuli; Sevak Singh (70), resident of Kua Chuli; and Ranjana Devi (24), resident of Chakrata.
In another accident that happened early on Tuesday, two students of a private university died and another was seriously injured when their car fell into a gorge at Masrana village in Suwakholi in Mussoorie. The deceased have been identified as Karan Waliya (20) and Nivesh Kumar (25), both natives of Meerut. The injured, Mayank (20), resident of Saharanpur Road, Dehradun, is recuperating in Doon Hospital.