SRINAGAR, India—A bus carrying soldiers fell into a gorge in India’s remote Ladakh region on Friday, killing at least seven and injuring 19 others, officials said.
The bus plunged off a mountainous road and rolled down the 25-meter (80-foot) -deep gorge in the frigid region’s Nubra Valley, police said.
The injured soldiers were flown to a military hospital in the northern city of Chandigarh, the military said.
Authorities were investigating whether the accident was caused by a mechanical failure or driver negligence. The privately owned bus was hired by the military to transport soldiers in the high-altitude region.
The accident occurred near an area where the borders of India, Pakistan, and China meet, in what strategic experts call the world’s only three-way nuclear-armed junction….