Six Indian border policemen killed as bus falls in gorge in IIOJK

Pakistan Aug, 17 2022

Held SRINAGAR: A bus carrying personnel from India’s high-altitude border police rolled off a mountainous road and fell into a gorge in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), killing at least six officers, police said.

Police said on Twitter injured were being flown to an Army hospital in Himalayan region’s main city of Srinagar, some 90km from accident site in Anantnag district. A police officer told Reuters that 35 people survived crash but some were badly injured.

Bus was carrying members of Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force, a federal force specialising in high-altitude operations, mainly on Indo-China Border. Pictures from site showed mangled remains of bus by a fast-flowing river.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 17 2022

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