DHAKA: Ten people died on Wednesday after a minibus carrying 16 passengers plunged into a mountain gorge in Russia’s North Caucasus.

Rescue officials said, reports The Straits Times.

‘According to preliminary information, there are seven children and three adults among the dead. Six more including three children were injured, an official at the Dagestan emergency medicine centre told media.

The minibus was driving along a mountain road in Dagestan’s western Tsuntinsky district on Wednesday morning when the driver stopped to clear a rockfall on the road, an interior ministry official in the Dagestan region, Isamagomed Sultanov, told media. 

‘The driver and one of the passengers got out to clear the road. At that moment the bus and the passengers were swept away by a new rockfall,’ Sultanov said.

BDST: 1930 HRS, JUNE 04, 2014