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26 killed, 34 injured as bus falls off bridge in Rajasthan
Twenty-six people, including students and teachers, were killed and 34 injured when their bus hit a stationary vehicle and fell off a bridge into a dry river bed in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur early this morning.
Updated on: Mar 15, 2010, 12:50:41 IST
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Twenty-six people, including students and teachers, were killed and 34 injured when their bus hit a stationary vehicle and fell off a bridge into a dry river bed in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district in the wee hours on Monday.
The mishap occurred along the Sawai Madhopur-Dausa border, 162 km from Jaipur, when the victims were returning home to Jhalawar from an educational trip to Vrindavan.
SP, Sawai Madhopur, Vikas Kumar told PTI that 21 people were killed on spot while five succumbed to injuries in a hospital.
Condition of one of the injured was stated to be serious.
The students and teachers belonged to a teacher's training institute in Khanpur in Jhalawar.
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