SRINAGAR: Three people died in two separate road accidents on Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district on Saturday morning with a truck and a mini-truck plunging into a deep gorge.
“A driver of a mini truck and his helper died when their Srinagar bound mini-truck (JK-19-7275) rolled down into a deep gorge at Digdol near Ramban this morning,” newspaper Hindustan Times quoted a police officer as having said.
The dead were identified as driver Rouf Ahmed, 32, and his helper Usman Ahmed, 18, of Magerkote in Ramsu.
Earlier, at about 6 am, another truck (JK18 A -0557) on its way from Jammu towards Srinagar, rolled down into a 120 feet deep gorge near Chamalwas in Banihal.
Reports said that truck driver Mayssar Ahmed, 24 of Pampore in Srinagar, died while two others identified as Basid Ahmad and Furkan Ahmad of Pampore were injured.
They were shifted to the district hospital in Banihal for treatment.
The 270 kilometre-long Jammu-Srinagar, the only all-weather surface link to Kashmir– has seen disruptions in the last few days due to heavy rains and landslides. The highway reopened for traffic on Friday afternoon after a brief disruption caused by landslides due to persistent rains. Earlier, this week, fresh traffic on the highway was affected for about 5 days due to landslides washing away a portion of the road in Ramban, reported Hindustan Times.
