A truck crowded with members of India's ruling political party has plunged from a mountain road into a gorge, killing 17 people.
More than 20 others have also been injured.
The truck was packed with slogan-shouting members of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party.
They were returning from an election rally by Shatrughan Sinha, a popular film star-turned federal minister, when the accident took place at Narwa, 43 miles from Simla, capital of the Himachal Pradesh state.
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State elections in the mountainous state are due on Wednesday.