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Thirty Sabarimala devotees injured as bus overturns

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Press Trust of India
Thirty Sabarimala pilgrims were today injured, four of them seriously, when a bus from Karnataka overturned on the NH-7 near Kakancherry in Malappuram district, police said.

The accident occurred around 9.00 am when the driver of the bus, carrying more than 50 pilgrims belonging to Bannerghatta near Bengaluru, lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a curve, police said.

They were returning from the hill shrine after darshan. The injured have been admitted to Kozhikode Medical College hospital, they said.

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First Published: Jan 18 2016 | 2:13 PM IST

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