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At least 39 pilgrims killed in Indian bus crash

Other News Materials 11 October 2007 22:38 (UTC +04:00)

( RIA Novosti ) - At least 39 Hindu pilgrims were killed as a bus went off the road in the Himalayas in the Indian north-eastern state of Uttarakhand, the NDTV channel said on Thursday.

The bus tumbled down a gorge in the Alaknanda River. The accident happened when pilgrims from the Indian state of Orissa were traveling home from a famous Shiva temple in the village of Badrinath.

The accident came just a few days after 15 Hindu pilgrims were killed and 53 injured in northern India in a stampede at a train station.

In early September at least 19 pilgrims died in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh as the result of a railway line accident.

Pilgrims are often the victims of accidents in India. On August 9, at least 85 pilgrims were killed in a road crash in India's north-western state of Rajasthan when the truck they were riding in fell into a gorge. The pilgrims had been traveling to the shrine of a medieval Sufi saint.

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