Fourteen people were killed and sixteen others were injured after a bus fell into a gorge in the Uttarakhand state in northern India, reported The Times of India.

The bus, which was carrying around thirty people, skidded off a highway into a 250-meter-deep gorge.

Rescue operations started soon after the incident.

All injured were sent to hospitals by helicopter.

The cause of this incident is not known yet.

Police have launched an investigation.