MUZAFFARABAD, June 13: Eleven persons were killed and seven others injured when a vehicle they were travelling in veered off a hilly road in Neelum Valley and plunged into a ravine on Thursday, police said.

According to details, the accident occurred when the tie-rod of a jeep, with 18 people on board, most of them from two families, broke and sending it out of the driver’s control.

Resultantly, the vehicle fell some 400 feet down into a ravine, killing 10 people on the spot. One more died in a military hospital in the area.

The police said the ill-fated vehicle was going to Kehian Sharif village from Kundal Shahi, in Neelum Valley, but met with the tragic accident only after three kilometres on the katcha road in the mountainous region.

The dead were Mian Shakil, 30, son of Sultan Badshah (driver), Mian Nisar, son of Mian Sikandar, Umar Hayat, 10, son of Mohammad Riaz, Reham Nur, 40, wife of Ali Zaman, Mohammad Iftikhar, 13, and Imran, 10, sons of Gulab Khan, Waliur Rehman, 50, his wife Maryam, 36, and children Shahida, 6, Sibtain, 5, and Zulqarnain, 4.

Six of the injured were Mohammad Riaz, 30, Mumtaz Ahmed, 18, Najma, 12, Ishtiaq, Sarwat, 6, and Marya, 3, (children of Waliur Rehman). The infant could not be identified.