7 die in India as bus plunges into flooded canal

A bus carrying about 40 passengers sank in an overflowing canal in eastern India, killing seven of them, officials said Tuesday. Among the dead were a 7-year-old girl and her mother, said Paresh Chandra Nayak, the district magistrate of Nayagarh, in Orissa state. The bus driver ignored warnings from his passengers about flooding in the canal ahead and kept driving Monday night, Nayak told CNN

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