At least 27 people, including a 7-year-old girl, were killed after the speeding bus they were travelling in crashed with an autorickshaw and fell into a well in Maharashtra state in western India, officials said on Wednesday.
Both vehicles fell into the roadside well after the crash late on Tuesday.
Emergency crews worked through the night to rescue survivors and retrieve bodies and used a crane to remove the red-and-white bus from the well, as hundreds thronged to the crash site in Nashik district, around 254km (158 miles) from India’s financial capital Mumbai.
Rescue operations ended early on Wednesday.
“We conducted rescue operations throughout the night and recovered 26 bodies. Another 32 injured have been sent for treatment,” National Disaster Response Force spokesman Sachidanand Gawde said.
Other reports put the death toll at 27. The bus driver was among the dead.
At least 33 passengers were injured and had to be pulled out of the well by rescuers
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