Seventeen people returning from a wedding are dead after the truck they were riding in careened into a gorge in northern India.
Another 28 people were injured in the accident late on Sunday near Kaladungi, a town almost 400 kilometres northeast of New Delhi, police said.
The driver lost control of the vehicle following a brake failure on a mountainous road in Uttarakhand state, local officer, Dinesh Pant said.
He was among those killed.
The bride and the groom survived as they were in another vehicle, he said.
India has the world's deadliest roads, with more than 110,000 people killed annually. Most crashes are blamed on reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and aging vehicles.
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