Rescue employees pulled out the badly injured from the wreckage of the automobile on Monday and despatched them to a hospital, Ashutosh Garg, a senior administrator for the district of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh state, informed information company Press Belief of India.
One other official, Prashant Sirkek Singh, stated about 20 passengers have been travelling within the bus.
Schoolchildren are amongst 16 individuals who died after a passenger bus slid off a mountain highway and fell right into a deep gorge in northern India, a authorities official stated.
Photographs shared on social media confirmed responders making an attempt to rescue survivors from the mangled hulk of the yellow bus.
The precise explanation for the crash was not instantly identified.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed sorrow over the accident.
Lethal highway accidents are frequent in India resulting from reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and ageing automobiles.
Greater than 110,000 individuals are killed yearly in highway accidents throughout India, based on police.
