Jammu and Kashmir news: The border force, primarily tasked to guard the 3,488 km stretch of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, was part of the comprehensive security deployment for the annual 43-day-long Amarnath Yatra that ended on August 11.
The 37 ITBP personnel and two from the Jammu & Kashmir Police, who were in the bus, were being de-inducted from the Amarnath Yatra duty that concluded on August 11. The bus fell down into a roadside river bed - between Chandanwari and Pahalgam - after its brakes reportedly failed.