NEW DELHI: At least 26 people, including three Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel, were injured in separate accidents in Jammu and Ramban districts on Saturday.
In the first accident, 22 people were injured in a head-on collision between two buses near Bomal Bridge on Akhnoor-Jourian Road in Jammu’s outskirts. In another mishap, a bus carrying ITBP personnel skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge in Ramban district, injuring three ITBP personnel and a civilian.
Akhnoor Police and locals launched a rescue operation and shifted the injured to Akhnoor SDH from where eight were referred to Jammu GMCH owing to critical injuries. Police registered a case and launched a probe.
In Ramban, a Kashmir-bound private truck carrying ITBP personnel skidded off the road and fell into a gorge at Kharpora Banihal along Jammu-Srinagar national highway, police said. “The injured ITBP men were identified as Gautam Sanadhan from Odisha, Lakhmasi Singh and Satpal Singh from Uttarakhand and civilian Manzoor Ahmad Bhat from Khanhmov, Srinagar,” said a cop.
Police registered a case and initiated an investigation into the cause of the accident.
In the first accident, 22 people were injured in a head-on collision between two buses near Bomal Bridge on Akhnoor-Jourian Road in Jammu’s outskirts. In another mishap, a bus carrying ITBP personnel skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge in Ramban district, injuring three ITBP personnel and a civilian.
Akhnoor Police and locals launched a rescue operation and shifted the injured to Akhnoor SDH from where eight were referred to Jammu GMCH owing to critical injuries. Police registered a case and launched a probe.
In Ramban, a Kashmir-bound private truck carrying ITBP personnel skidded off the road and fell into a gorge at Kharpora Banihal along Jammu-Srinagar national highway, police said. “The injured ITBP men were identified as Gautam Sanadhan from Odisha, Lakhmasi Singh and Satpal Singh from Uttarakhand and civilian Manzoor Ahmad Bhat from Khanhmov, Srinagar,” said a cop.
Police registered a case and initiated an investigation into the cause of the accident.
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