A bus toppled into a gorge in northern India today when the driver lost control while trying to negotiate a curve covered by a landslide. A senior police official said all 65 people aboard died.

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Sixty-three people died immediately and two who survived the plunge into the 650-foot-deep gorge north of Jammu, later died in a hospital, Deputy Inspector of Police S.S. Ali said.Ali, who visited the accident site, said 56 bodies had been recovered and that darkness was hampering the search for others. "It is a terrible sight, some of the bodies are badly mutilated," he said.

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