India, Dec. 12 -- At least 10 passengers were killed, and 20 were injured when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a gorge at Tulasiipakalu in Andhra Pradesh's Alluri Sitarama Raju district on Friday morning.

Police said the bus driver apparently lost control of the vehicle. "The accident appears to have happened after 1am, but we got the information later due to a lack of communication facilities in the forest area," a police officer said.

The Vigneswara Travels bus was carrying 37 passengers from Bhadrachalam in Telangana to the temple town of Annavaram in Andhra Pradesh. The passengers are said to be from Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor. Rescuers rushed to the accident site after residents alerted the police.

"The injured were sh...