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posted by: Sanstuti Nath
Last updated: Jul 05, 2023 at 10:19 am IST
Officials said the driver of the vehicle lost control on Thanamandi Bhangai Road (Representative Image/PTI)
The accident occurred in Thanamandi sub-district when the car was on its way to Bhangai village from Poonch, where the victims had gone to attend a funeral.
Four people were killed and eight seriously injured when their car veered off a road and veered into a deep ravine in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Wednesday morning, officials said.
The accident occurred in Thanamandi sub-district when the car was on its way to Bhangai village from Poonch, where the victims had gone to attend a funeral, they said.
Officials said the driver of the car lost control on Thanamandi Bhangai Road, hundreds of meters away from its destination.
Twelve passengers in total were traveling in the vehicle at the time of the accident. All were rescued by the locals and the police and taken to Thanamandi District Hospital where four of them were declared dead.”
The dead were Shamim Akhtar (55), Rubina Kausar (35), Zarina Begum and Muhammad Yunus (38), all residents of Bhangai.
Sub-divisional police officer Thanamandi Imtiaz Ahmed said the injured were referred to GMC Associated Hospital in Rajouri.
He said a case had been registered under the relevant sections of the law.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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