Indian police rescue people after a bus accident at the Ghogra Canal in Murshidabad district, around 187 miles from Kolkata on January 29, 2018. At least 36 people were killed in eastern India's West Bengal state early January 29 after a speeding passenger bus swerved off a bridge and plunged into a river, police said. Pic/ AFP

With the recovery of two more bodies by rescue workers on Tuesday, the death toll in the Murshidabad bus accident in Bengal rose to 38, an official said. On Monday, 36 bodies were recovered from the Gobra canal in which the bus had plunged after crashing through the Nalini Buske bridge railing in Balirghat area.