Mumbai, April 16, 2023 (PPI-OT): Thirteen persons, including at least five minors, were killed and 29 others injured after a bus, carrying young male and female members of a traditional music troupe, fell into a gorge on the old Mumbai-Pune highway in Raigad district of Maharashtra early on Saturday. Police said the private bus with 42 persons on board was going from Pune to Mumbai when it plunged into the 300-feet deep gorge in the Bor Ghat mountain pass section, better known as Khandala Ghat, around 4.50am.

The accident occurred near Khopoli town in the district, around 70 km from Mumbai, a senior police official said. According to police, the deceased included a six-year-old boy and a girl aged 15, while of the total number of injured, at least six are minors. Most of the music troupe members were in their twenties or teenagers, who were heading back to Mumbai after taking part in an event in Pimpri Chinchwad near Pune city.

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