DEHRADUN - At least 13 people have died and two others were seriously injured after a pick-up truck travelling in a remote and mountainous region in northern India plunged into a deep gorge on Sunday, officials said.
The pick-up was taking 15 people from Bayla village to Vikasnagar city in Uttarakhand state when it went off the road around 10:00am local time (0430 GMT), Dehradun district’s Rural Superintendent of Police, Swatantra Kumar Singh, told AFP.
Singh said 13 bodies were recovered from the 400-foot (122-metre) deep gorge in a rural part of Chakrata town. A five-year-old child and another villager, whose age was not disclosed, were taken to hospital in a serious condition.