Jaipur, Oct. 17 -- At least eight pilgrims, including five women, were killed and around 17 others injured after the Tempo Traveller in which they were travelling to the Khatu Shyam Ji shrine skidded off a culvert on the Mumbai-Delhi Expressway in Rajasthan's Kota district on Saturday morning.
The ill-fated bus was bringing passengers from Bhopal to Khatu ShyamJi dham in Sikar district for paying obeisance at the famous pilgrim centre when it skidded off the culvert along Samaliya Kardiya village and fell into a 15-ft muddy gorge around 06.00 am, a police official said.
The driver perhaps dozed off and lost control of the vehicle that hit the roadside railing at the culvert on the eight-lane mega highway.
The rescuers had to work hard to...