MIRPUR: At least five persons were killed and eleven others injured, when a pickup van carrying passengers fell into a deep ravine near Ghori village, about 15 kilometers away from Muzaffarabad-Neelam valley Road.
According to Police sources, the ill-fated private passenger pickup van was on way from Athmuqam to Muzaffarabad when it met the accident while negotiating a sharp turn at about 8.50 pm Thursday.
The injured were rushed to the Central State-run Hospital in Muzaffarabad where the condition of four is stated to be critical.
Rescue operations were underway when last reports came in – as police and civil authorities rushed to the site of the accident to supervise the relief works.