Bus fell into the Almatti dam canal: 57 people have died

Fifty-seven people, including 18 women and two children, died Monday when a bus fell into the Almatti dam canal at Nidugundi in the southern Indian state of Karnataka's Bijapur district. The bodies of all the victims of the ill-fated bus, bound for Chitapur in Gulbarga district from Hubli, have been recovered, the Press Trust of &to= english.pravda.ru/world/2001/02/19/2594.html ' target=_blank>India quoted local police authorities as saying. Nine passengers of the jam-packed bus swam to safety. Among the victims were 18 women and two children, and seven members of a family bound for Jewargi in Gulbarga district. Four cranes were pressed into the &to= english.pravda.ru/main/2002/08/24/35186.html ' target=_blank>relief work, which was carried out after emptying the water in the canal, to pull the bus out of the canal, as hundreds of people from surrounding villages gathered at the accident site. Rescuers had to break the window panes of the bus to take out the victims, tells Reuters. ABC news, publishes, that some 57 people have died in the southern Indian state of &to= english.pravda.ru/world/2001/12/20/24044.html ' target=_blank>Karnataka after their bus crashed into a canal. The accident occurred in Karnataka's Bijapur district, some 530 kilometres north-west of state capital Bangalore. "The bus fell into a deep canal of the Almatti Dam, when the driver lost control of the vehicle on a sharp curve," a police spokesman said. "The water there was about four-and-a-half to six metres deep," he said. Rescue teams have recovered the 57 bodies. Nine of 66 passengers on board the state run bus swam to shore.

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