9 killed as bus crashes into boulder in Karnataka

At least nine people were killed

and several others injured when a bus collided with roadside boulder in Udupi district in Karnataka on Saturday, police said.

The bus was carrying about 35 passengers, part of a trip organised by a private company in Mysuru for its employees, when the mishap occurred near Karkala on Wednesday evening.

Police suspect failure on the part of the driver to negotiate a curve might have caused the mishap.