Nine killed, around 40 injured as private bus falls into gorge in Himachal’s Sirmaur

Nine people died while about 40 others were injured after a private bus fell into a gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district on Friday (January 9, 2026) afternoon, police said. The accident occurred when the bus en route from Shimla to Kupvi via Rajgarh veered off the road and plunged into the gorge down the road and landed upside down near Haripurdhar village, around 95 kilometres from the district headquarters, Nahan.

Sub-divisional Magistrate (SDM) Sangrah, Sunil Kayath, who is at the spot supervising the rescue operation, told PTI that nine bus passengers have died while about 40 are injured.

He said the rescue operation is going on war footing and all the injured and dead were being rushed to nearby Sangrah and Dadahu hospitals.