At least 28 people, many of them children, drowned yesterday after their bus plunged into a canal in India, police said, in the latest tragedy on the world's deadliest roads.

An overcrowded bus plunged into a gorge in southern India yesterday, killing at least 55 people and injuring several more, in one of the worst such accidents this year, authorities said.

A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a river in western India after smashing through a bridge railing, killing 12 and injuring another three, police say.

Four Indian powerlifting players killed and two others injured as a private car carrying them overturns on the Delhi-Chandigarh highway in Delhi.

At least 16 Hindu pilgrims are killed and 27 injured after a bus carrying them skids off a mountain road and falls into a gorge in Indian Kashmir, says a senior police official.

A man is killed in an accident involving three cars, including a Lamborghini in India’s Uttar Pradesh.