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At least 12 people were killed and 49 injured after a private bus fell into a riverbed from the Mahanadi bridge near Jagatpur in Cuttack on Tuesday. There was no water where the bus fell, said Cuttack deputy commissioner of police Akhileswar Singh. #UPDATE: Death toll rises to 12 in the incident where a bus carrying around 30 passengers fell from the Mahanadi bridge near Jagatpur in Cuttack today. According to eyewitnesses, the bus hit a buffalo before it fell off the the bridge. The bus, on its way to Cuttack from Talcher, crashed into the railing of the bridge and plunged 30 feet down into the dry riverbed, the police said..