The passengers on the bus were a group of Hindu pilgrims who were on their way to the Vaishno Devi temple in Katra in southern Kashmir when it ran off a bridge.
According to the local police, the bus must have been overcrowded.
The number of traffic victims in India is among the highest in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people are killed and injured every year – among other things due to careless driving and poorly maintained roads and vehicles.