Jammu, April 2
In the second major bus accident in less then a week, 38 persons were killed and 36 injured when an overloaded bus skidded off the road and fell in a deep gorge while negotiating a curve in the Mandi area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district this evening, the police said.
The toll was likely to rise as the condition of many of the injured was stated to be critical.
The accident
occurred at Jandoral village when the driver of the overloaded bus, going from Sathra to Gali Pindi, was negotiating a curve. the vehicle skidded off the road and rolled down a deep gorge.
Civil and Army rescue teams rushed to the spot and extricated the dead and injured. Army ambulances and doctors shifted the injured to the district hospital in Poonch. This is the second such mishap in the area in the past five days.
— PTI
