of the present day DELHI, Aug. 16 K...

of the present day DELHI, Aug. 16 Kyodo

Twenty-eight the public were killed and another 28 injured, 10 of them critically, when a bus skidded against the road in northern India onward Friday morning, Press Trust of India reported.

The bus, carrying 56 the public was proceeding to the town of Poonch from Bandi Cherchina village in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir, India's northernmost state, when the accident took place, the report said.

A helicopter was make smoothed into service to airlift the seriously injured to Jammu Medical literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning Hospital, where 10 are in critical condition, it said.

The accident occurr a certain 260 kilometers northwest of Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir.

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