MUZAFFARABAD, July 26: Two of the four people killed in a road accident here on Monday were buried in the evening after the administration resolved an ownership dispute on a piece of land which the government had declared a Christian cemetery.

Muzaffarabad deputy commissioner Liaquat Hussain told Dawn that the remaining bodies were taken by their relatives to Islamabad.

Seven people, belonging to the Christian community, were killed and six others injured when their vehicle fell into River Jhelum, some 10km from here. Three of the dead were swept away by strong currents.

The victims were returning from a burial in Sialkot in a vehicle of the Muzaffarabad municipal corporation when they met with the accident.

Six of the victims were employees of the municipal corporation.

The official said that AJK Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat had announced Rs16,000 each for grieving families, Rs10,000 each for the five seriously injured person and Rs5,000 for the one who had received minor injuries.

The deputy commissioner, who is also administrator of the municipal corporation, said the department had separately given Rs5,000 each to the families of the deceased and Rs3,000 each to the wounded.

He said the corporation would also provide jobs to the eligible members of the victim families.

He said the government would erect a boundary wall around the graveyard where, he added, a church could also be built in the near future.