During the rescue operation, 11 bodies were recovered. (Source: ANI)
A vehicle carrying pilgrims to a temple skidded off the road and fell into the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, killing 13 people. The incident took place when they were going to the Mata Machail temple in the district.
“A vehicle carrying pilgrims to the Machail Mata temple rolled down and fell into the Chenab river, around 28 km from Kishtwar, in the Padder belt area today,” Jammu and Kashmir DGP S P Vaid told PTI.
During the rescue operation, 11 bodies were recovered. The only survivor, the five-year-old child was undergoing treatment at a hospital. The child was shifted to a hospital in Kishtwar and then to Jammu where the child died. The description of the vehicle and the gender of the child are yet to be known.
This is the second major accident in Kishtwar district in the past 24 hours. Yesterday, seven people, including a policeman, were killed and 12 others injured after two vehicles came under a landslide in the district. The incident took place at Kulligad on the Doda-Kishtwar road.
Huge boulders and debris suddenly came down from a hill burying a mini-bus and a car plying on the Doda-Kishtwar road, Senior Superintendent of Police Rajinder Kumar Gupta had said.
(With inputs from ANI)