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The local people along with the Police acted promptly and started the rescue operations.
Truck falls into deep gorge (Source: Internet)
Srinagar: As a truck fell into a gorge today on Saturday, the driver was among two persons killed in Ramban district.
Police said that a truck on its way from Jammu to Srinagar this morning fell into a 150-foot-deep gorge when the driver lost his control on reaching Nachlana in Banihal area of Ramban.
The local people along with the Police acted promptly and started the rescue operations.
The driver has been identified as Raju Bhat,40, resident of Chak Rekhwala, district Udhampur and another person identified as Suraj (30). Both of them were found dead on the spot.
The bodies have been shifted to the Sub-District Hospital, Banihal.
In the first week of June, at least two persons were killed and six others suffered injuries in a mishap on the Bani-Basohli road in Bani tehsil of Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
Police said that a cab met with an accident and rolled down on the road on the Bani-Basohli road, in which eight persons suffered injuries.
Cab met with an accident - File (Source: Internet)
"Two people were killed and six others, including a female, were injured," they said, adding that with the help of locals and police, the injured were rushed to the nearby hospital, and out of them, a teenager was referred to the Government Medical College and Hospital Kathua.
A month ago on 4 May at least three soldiers lost their lives after an army vehicle fell into a 700-foot-deep gorge in Ramban district.
The army truck was part of a convoy moving from Jammu to Srinagar along national highway 44 when the accident occurred near Battery Chashma at around 11.30 am.
Police said a joint rescue operation was launched immediately by army, police, SDRF and local volunteers and three soldiers, travelling in the vehicle, were found dead on-the-spot.
The deceased were identified as sepoys Amit Kumar, Sujeet Kumar and Man Bahadur and their bodies are being retrieved from the gorge, the officials said, adding the crash reduced the vehicle into a mangled heap of metal.
In March at least three persons were killed and another 10 injured in a mini-bus accident near Mahore.
