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26 pilgrims drowned

Dehradun June 16. Twenty-six pilgrims were drowned and six injured, two of them seriously, when a private bus in which they were returning from the Badrinath shrine skidded and plunged into the Alaknanda river at Baldora area in Chamoli district last night, police today said.

The bus going to Hardwar from Badrinath was carrying 32 pilgrims, including 17 women, mostly from Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.

So far five bodies had been recovered and there was no hope of any survivors, the DIG (Garhwal range), L. P. Mishra, told PTI.

The Uttaranchal Chief Minister, N. D. Tiwari, has expressed shock over the accident and directed the administration to take appropriate steps to make the region safer.

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