School bus falls into gorge in Himachal Pradesh, 26 children among 29 dead

At least 29 people, including 26 students, were killed Monday after a private school bus fell into an gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district.

The gorge was over a 100 feet deep.

The driver of the bus and two teachers are dead.

Most of the students - of the Wazir Ram Singh Pathania Memorial Public School in Kangra - were from Class 5 or below.

The children were on their way home when their bus fell into the gorge near Gurchal village on the Nurpur-Chamba road, some 300 km from Shimla.