At least seven are dead and 11 injured after a bus hurtled off a mountain road and smashed onto the road below in the Chamba district, about 393 km north of Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, local media reported.

Locals rushed to the rescue after the death plunge around 7 a.m. on Saturday, pulling bodies from the mangled wreckage.

The cause of the crash is still being investigated.