7 Dead After Bus Carrying Passengers From Wedding Party Falls Into Andhra Canal

During the initial probe, police said it learned that the passengers had hired the bus to attend a marriage function.

Seven people including a seven year-old child were killed and more than 15 people were injured after the bus in which they were travelling in fell into a water canal near Darsi in Andhra Pradesh's Prakasam district, police said on Tuesday.

The accident took place around midnight when the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation Bus transporting over 40 passengers fell into the Sagar Canal.

The bus was on its way from to Kakinada.