(Reuters) -At least 10 people were killed and several others injured after a bus was hit by a landslide on Tuesday in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, the state’s chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said in a post on X.
“There is concern that several others may be trapped under the debris,” he said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a payment of 200,000 rupees ($2,254) from the prime minister’s National Relief Fund for the next of kin of each person killed in the accident and that the injured would be given 50,000 rupees.
($1 = 88.7240 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina in BengaluruEditing by Gareth Jones)
