A private bus carrying nearly three dozen university staff fell into a ravine in Raigad district of Maharashtra on Saturday morning, killing at least 10 passengers. Police said that the bus was heading towards popular tourist destinations of Mahabaleshwar-Panchgani.

Raigad Police Control official P.D. Patil said that around 35 staff of Konkan Agriculture University in Ratnagiri, including some women, were on way for a weekend picnic to popular tourist destinations of Mahabaleshwar-Panchgani when the bus fell 500 feet down into the ravine around 9 a.m. near Poladpur.