{"id":37436,"date":"2025-12-12T19:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37436"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:22:58","slug":"9-killed-29-injured-as-bus-plunges-into-ravine-in-s-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/9-killed-29-injured-as-bus-plunges-into-ravine-in-s-india\/","title":{"rendered":"9 killed, 29 injured as bus plunges into ravine in S. India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>NEW DELHI, Dec. 12 :<\/strong> At least nine people were killed and 29 others injured, some of them critically, after a bus carrying them skidded off the road and plunged into a ravine in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident took place near the Tulasipakalu village in Alluri Sitarama Raju district, about 267 km northeast of Amaravati, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the bus was carrying 35 passengers, two drivers, and a cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the accident, teams from the Maredumilli and Chintoor police stations reached the spot and began rescue operations along with local villagers.<\/p>\n<p>The victims have been identified as local tourists traveling from Araku Valley and scheduled to reach the Bhadrachalam temple later in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police have registered a case and ordered an investigation into the accident. Preliminary investigations carried out by the police revealed the accident took place when the bus veered off the road while navigating a sharp curve in the forested ghats, causing it to fall down a steep slope.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that the bus driver did not see a curve on the road due to heavy fog and ended up in the ravine, a police official said.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the accident and announced compensation to the families of the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Dec. 12 : At least nine people were killed and 29 others injured, some of them critically, after a bus carrying them skidded off the road and plunged into a ravine in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on Friday, police said. The accident took place near the Tulasipakalu village in Alluri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37438,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37436\/revisions\/37438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}