At least 14 people, including children, were killed in two separate accidents in the hill state of Uttarakhand, reports said on Tuesday.
In the first accident, nine children died and eight were seriously injured as a school bus, carrying 18 children, rolled down a gorge in Kangsali of Tehri Garhwal.
News agency ANI quoted an official of the Disaster Mitigation And Management Centre in Tehri Garhwal saying that a team of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has been rushed to the spot. The injured have been shifted to a hospital, it added.
ANI also reported that five passengers were killed and several feared trapped when a boulder fell on their bus at Lambagad slide zone on the Badrinath Highway.
Efforts to rescue the trapped people was underway, it said, and a police team was also present at the spot.