SRINAGAR: A 22-year-old non-local resident was killed while two others were injured after a vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident at Chanderkot area in Ramban district. Six persons who were also travelling in the vehicle are still missing, officials said.
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Hoping to reach their native places safely amid ongoing lockdown, nine migrants of Uttar Pradesh met with a tragedy when an ill-fated vehicle, in which they were returning from Srinagar, fell into the river Chenab on Jammu-Srinagar national highway.
Seven out of a total of nine migrants traveling in the vehicle feared to have died as the body of only one person has been retrieved so far while six others were reportedly washed away in the mighty river.
A senior police officer engaged in the rescue operation told International Business Times that three persons were rescued during a 12-hour long search operation out of which one individual succumbed to his injuries while two others were seriously injured.