Fourteen passengers died and 14 were injured when the bus in which they were travelling fell into a deep gorge near Janakichatti in Uttarkashi district at about 12:30 pm on Sunday. According to the Uttarkashi district emergency operation centre, the accident took place on the Naugaon-Damta-Vikasnagar Road in Badkot tehsil involving a private bus bearing registration number UK 07 PA 1127. The bus fell off the road down about 250 metres into the Yamuna riverside.

The District Magistrate, Superintendent of Police and other officials reached the site with six ambulances and doctors to undertake the rescue operation. Fourteen people were reported dead on the spot.

Of the 14 injured, six are in serious condition and were airlifted by helicopter. Three were admitted in AIIMS Rishikesh and three were admitted in Jolly Grant hospital. The remaining eight injured were transported by ambulance to Dehradun. In other accident which took place in Pithoragarh district three people died and two were injured when their car fell into 500-metre deep ravine in the afternoon. The accident took place at Gyarah Devi. One of the two injured was taken to Sushila Tiwari hospital in Haldwani while the other injured person was taken to the military hospital in Pithoragarh. Meanwhile, Governor Baby Rani Maurya, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Vidhan Sabha Speaker Premchand Agrawal, BJP State president Ajay Bhatt and Pradesh Congress Committee president Pritam Singh expressed grief over the casualties.

The Chief Minister directed a magisterial inquiry into the Uttarkashi accident. Asking officials concerned to facilitate immediate medical treatment of the injured, the Chief Minister also directed that the seriously injured be airlifted by helicopter to Dehradun. He also told the Uttarkashi District Magistrate to make ex gratia payments to the families of those killed as well as to those injured.