Father-son duo charred to death as car catches fire after falling in gorge
The accident occured when they were returning to their home in Dehradun.
The accident occured when they were returning to their home in Dehradun.
A late evening drive along Meghalaya’s Shillong-Dawki Road ended in tragedy as a vehicle carrying five people, including a pregnant woman, veered off the highway and plunged into a 70-foot-deep gorge near Rngain in East Khasi Hills district.
Seven persons were killed while 17 others were injured, four of them critically, after an overloaded passenger vehicle on Tuesday plunged into a deep gorge near the Bhart village, about 25 km from the district headquarters of Doda.
Three soldiers were killed, and three others seriously injured after an Army vehicle fell into a 200-feet deep gorge due to inclement weather and poor visibility near SK Bala in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Saturday.
Five Army soldiers were killed and four seriously injured when the vehicle in which they were travelling plunged into a 300 ft deep gorge near the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch district on Tuesday evening.
The bus carrying staff members of a school to a marriage ceremony rolled into the gorge about 5 km away from the Durbuk TCP.
The victims include a man, two women and five children between 6 and 16 years of age, who were coming from Kishtwar, the police said.
Defence spokesman Lt. Colonel Devender Anand said that seven injured persons were flown to Jammu in a MI 17 helicopter of IAF.
Himachal witnesses an average of 3,000 road accidents each year killing over 1,000 people, according to government reports.
The bus carrying around 50 passengers was on its way from Banjar to Gadagushani area when the accident occurred.
