At least 13 people died and 33 others were wounded when a bus plunged hundreds of feet down an escarpment in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Monday, police said.

The vehicle was on its way to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, when it veered off the mountain road near the village of Lamian Pattian, about 10 kilometres (six miles) west of here, police senior superintendent Adalat Khan told

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Thirteen people, including a woman, died on the spot and 33 others were injured, he said.