07 February 2005	Monday	27 Zilhaj 1425

SRINAGAR, Feb 6: Twenty-eight people were killed and 34 injured when a bus plunged into a deep gorge in Indian Kashmir on Sunday, police said.

The bus rolled into the 300-feet-deep gorge in the district of Udhampur, 200 kilometers south of Srinagar, when the driver lost control while negotiating a sharp mountain bend at the village of Barmeen Ghoudi, a police spokesman said.

"Many of the injured are in critical condition," the spokesman said, adding they were being shifted to Udhampur district hospital.

The bus was travelling to Udhampur from Chenani village on a mountain road that had been recently covered by snow, police said.

Twenty-five people died on the spot while three others, including a child, died while being taken to hospital.-AFP