After our bodies have been recovered from a gorge in Ramban district on Friday, the police revealed that out of the ten deceased people, eight passengers have been from Bihar, whereas one was from Uttar Pradesh.
In response to a PTI report, ten folks have been killed after an SUV skidded off the Jammu-Srinagar Nationwide Freeway and fell into the gorge 300-foot. The incident occurred when the automobile, a Tavera, on its approach to Jammu from Srinagar fell, on the Battery Cheshma space of the district round 1:15 AM, police informed PTI. The State Catastrophe Response Pressure, police, and civil Fast Response Staff (QRT) Ramban reached the spot for rescue operations.
The motive force, Balwan Singh, 47, was from Amb Ghrotha in Jammu, and one of many passengers — Sandeep — was from Maharajganj in Uttar Pradesh. The eight occupants hailed from Bihar’s West Champaran. They have been recognized as Raju Kumar, Avadhesh Bin, Belas Bin, Indrajit Bin, Bipin Mukhiya, Raj Kumar Bin, Hari Bin, and Rajan Mukhiya.
Senior officers, together with Ramban Deputy Commissioner Baseer Ul Haq Choudhary, Ramban Senior Superintendent of Police Anuj Kumar and Deputy Inspector Basic of Police in Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban Vary Shridhar Patil visited the positioning. An FIR underneath related sections has been registered and a probe has been launched within the case.
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Leaders Condole Deaths Of The Deceased
In a submit on X, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief concerning the accident and prolonged his condolences to the bereaved households.
“PM Narendra Modi has expressed grief on the accident in Ramban, Jammu and Kashmir. He extends condolences to the bereaved households and prays for a fast restoration of the injured.
An ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh from PMNRF can be given to the following of kin of every deceased. The injured can be given Rs. 50,000.”
President Droupadi Murmu mourned the lack of lives within the highway accident and conveyed her condolences to the bereaved households.
“The information of individuals getting killed after a automobile fell right into a gorge within the Ramban space on the Jammu-Srinagar Nationwide Freeway may be very unhappy. I provide my condolences to the bereaved households,” Murmu mentioned in a submit in Hindi on X.
Individuals’s Democratic Celebration (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti, Democratic Progressive Azad Celebration chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad, Apni Celebration chief Altaf Bukhari, Peoples Convention chairman Sajad Lone, and CPI(M) chief M Y Tarigami provided their condolences to the households of those that misplaced their lives.
The social gathering’s vice chairman, Omar Abdullah, emphasised the urgency of finishing the promised four-lane freeway to make sure that folks can undertake their journeys with enhanced security measures