PNS/DEHRADUN
The driver of the ill-fated bust which plunged into a 200- ft –deep gorge killing at least 36 people in Almora was reportedly stressed with calls coming on his mobile demanding money.
One of the injured passengers, who is being treated at a hospital, Ravindra Pokhriyal said that as he was sitting next to the driver Dinesh Singh, he had heard the telephonic conversation.
When he asked Dinesh what the matter was, the latter told him that someone who had lent him Rs 2.5 lakh had been calling him repeatedly to return it immediately. That was how he lost control and the bus veered off the road, Pokhriyal said.
