MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 18: Three people were killed and thirteen others, including three women, suffered injuries in two road accidents in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir over the past 24 hours, police said here on Saturday.

The first accident occurred at around 8 pm on Friday near Barali village in the southern Kotli district when a jeep with 12 passengers skidded off the road and fell into a gorge.

Three persons, identified as Shahpal, Abid Sharif and Mohammad Zaman, were killed while nine others, including three women, suffered injuries.

In the second accident near Dunga Kas, some 7 kilometres north of here, a car fell into a ravine from Neelum valley road on Saturday morning. Four people were injured and admitted to Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences here.