Dharamshala, July 28 -- Two people were killed and thirteen others injured after a bus carrying devotees from Punjab's Amritsar overturned in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district, officials said on Monday.

The deceased Hitesh Kumar, 24 and Kavya, 15, were among the 35 passengers in the bus when it met with an accident around 9 pm on Sunday near Shahtalai on the Deotsidh-Shahtalai road, on the Bilaspur-Hamirpur border, officials said.

The passengers, all Amritsar residents, were coming back from Baba Balaknath temple.

Bilaspur deputy commissioner (DC) Rahul Kumar said that the teams from the district administration, police and health department rushed to the spot and launched relief and rescue operations immediately after the incident. ...