Jammu, November, 10 (Vijay Kumar) -In a tragic road mishap at least eight people were killed while thirty nine injured, out of them seventeen suffered critical injuries , when a minibus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Poonch district in Jammu region on Tuesday.
Police said,that an overloaded minibus bearing registration No. 2456/JK12, which was on its way from village Nuna Bandi to Poonch town skidded off the road near Bandi Chechian and fell into a deep gorge when the driver failed to negotiate a sharp curve.
On receiving information about the accident Police rushed to the spot and started rescue operation and shifted the injured to the district Hospital Poonch where eight persons were declared as brought dead. The seventeen critically wounded persons were airlifted to GMC Jammu while three others by road on ambulance and rest nineteen were admitted in the Poonch hospital.
The deceased have been identified as Irshad Ahmed (18 years), s/o Mohd Hussain r/o Bandi Chechain , Shamema Begum (18 years) w/o Muzaffar Hussain r/o Kaswa , one minor baby d/o Mohd Hafiz r/o Gandrian, Qadir Hussain s/o Sankar Ali r/o Mandi Poonch, Mohd Sharief s/o Raj Mohd r/o Bandi Chechian, Sarfraz Ahmed s/o Latif Hussain r/o Kaswa,Mohd Ashraf s/o Khudha Bapsh r/o Bani Chechain, Mohd Ashraf s/o Khudha Bapsh r/o Bandi Chechain,Mohd Afzal s/o Mohd Sharief r/o Bandi Chechian .
In another road mishap one cop of traffic police died on spot in a road mishapat Kothri under the jurisdiction of PS Batote .The deceased has been identified as Constable Masoom Choudhary No. 28/Tfc. Presently posted at Manwal.
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