MUZAFFARABAD: Five persons, including an infant, were killed and nine others injured when a jeep they were travelling in fell from a narrow hilly road near here on Sunday evening, police said.

The vehicle was on its way to Batnara village from Nosada, some 40 kilometres northeast from here, when it met the accident on a link road.

“While negotiating a curve, the vehicle went out of the driver’s control and fell more than a thousand feet down,” a police official told Dawn from the area.

Three persons, including a nine-month-old boy, died on the spot while the injured were rushed to Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahayan Hospital in Muzaffarabad.

Two of them died during treatment at the hospital, the official said.

The deceased were identified as Abid, Shahzad, Rafique, infant Ahmed and Khushnud Bibi.

Those hospitalised are Sajid, Zulekha and her son Adeel, Zulekha, Tabassum and her son Hammad, Abdul Rashid, Hafeez and Mukhtiar.

Published in Dawn, February 5th, 2018

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