Bus, van collide in India, killing 34

Police say a head-on collision between a bus and a van that was carrying mourners returning from a funeral killed 34 people in northern India.
State police official DYS Chauhan says another 14 people in the two vehicles were injured in the crash Saturday near Badaun, a town in Uttar Pradesh state.

The bus driver was among those killed.

Chauhan said Sunday that the van's driver lost control of the vehicle as it went through a mound of sand. It then crashed into the bus.

Badaun is 175 miles (280 kilometers) southwest of Lucknow, the state capital.

More than 110,000 people die annually in India in road accidents caused by speeding, bad roads, overcrowding and poor vehicle maintenance, according to police.

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