The accident had occurred when a bus carrying 86 devotees from Haryana's Kurukshetra to the Shiv Khori shrine in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district skidded off the Jammu-Poonch highway and plunged into a 150-foot gorge.

Six officials, including a motor vehicle inspector, have been dismissed and authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have launched a magisterial-level inquiry into a bus accident that claimed 22 lives and left 70 injured here on Thursday, May 30.

PM Narendra Modi announces ex gratia relief of Rs 2 lakh each for kin of deceased, Rs 50,000 for injured