20 die as bus falls into ravine in Pakistan

At least 20 people were killed and 21 others were injured as a bus veered into a ravine in Pakistan's far north early on Friday.

Faizullah Firaq, a spokesman for local government authorities in the area, said they launched a rescue operation to evacuate all the injured, who were taken to hospital.

According to Reuters, the bus was headed to Gilgit-Baltistan from Rawalpindi in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab.