Jammu, June 19, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a 35-year-old man was killed when a dumper driven by him skidded off the road and plunged into a 400-foot-deep gorge in Ramban district of Jammu region. The driver, Reyaz Ahmad Lohar was unloading muck when he lost control over the vehicle, which fell into the gorge at Chamalwas, near Banihal, along the Srinagar-Jammu highway, a police official said.
He said Lohar, a local resident, was working for a contractor engaged by a construction company to dump muck from a section of the ongoing highway-widening project. The rescuers rushed to the scene of the accident and evacuated Lohar to the Banihal sub-district hospital, where he was declared brought dead by the doctors, the official said.
On the other hand, a 70-year-old woman was found dead in South Kashmir’s Islamabad district, today. Officials said that the woman identified as Rathi Bagum, a resident of Poshkeeri, was found dead in a water body this morning. “She perhaps has drowned in a water body while washing her face in the morning. We sent a police team and the body of the woman has been retrieved,” he said.
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