NEW DELHI — NEW DELHI (AP) — A passenger bus carrying dozens of members of a music troupe slid off a freeway and fell right into a gorge in western India on Saturday, killing 13 folks and injuring 29 others, police stated.

The bus was on its strategy to Mumbai, India’s monetary capital, in Maharashtra state, from Pune metropolis, the place the musicians held a efficiency, stated Atul Zende, a police officer. The precise reason behind the crash was not instantly identified.

Zende stated many of the passengers who died have been a part of the music troupe from Mumbai.

He stated rescue employees pulled out the badly injured from the wreckage of the bus and despatched them to a hospital.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed sorrow over the accident and introduced financial aid to the victims’ households.

Deadly highway accidents are widespread in India because of reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and growing older autos. More than 110,000 persons are killed yearly in highway accidents throughout India, in keeping with police.