Thirteen dead after bus carrying music troupe crashes

Police and rescue officials inspect the wreckage (AP)

Thirteen people have died and 29 have been hurt after a passenger bus carrying dozens of members of a music troupe left a motorway and crashed into a gorge in western India, police say.

The bus was on its way to Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, from the city of Pune, where the musicians had performed, police officer Atul Zende said.