At least three military personnel were killed while two received critical injuries when their car fell into a deep ravine near Pattan area in Bisham on Saturday. The personnel were travelling on the Karakorum Highway (KKH) where they met with the accident.
According to police officials, the men were travelling from Gilgit to Rawalpindi to spend vacations with their families.
Police and Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) personnel were involved in the search and rescue operation during which they recovered the bodies while shifting the injured to Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) hospital in Bisham.
The injured personnel were later shifted to Ayub Medical College in Abbottabad to receive better treatment. The identities of the deceased and the injured were not revealed by the police.