At least 16 Hindu pilgrims are killed and 27 injured after a bus carrying them skids off a mountain road and falls into a gorge in Indian Kashmir, says a senior police official.

Several hundred thousand Hindu devotees of the country embark on a pilgrimage every year at the scenic and fabled Chandranath hill in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong.

At least 27 pilgrims die in a stampede on the banks of a holy river in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.