Five killed, 45 hurt in IHK bus accident
April 29, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, five passengers including a couple and a two-year-old boy were killed while 45 others were injured in a bus accident in Udhampur district, reports KMS.
The accident occurred when an overloaded bus in which they were travelling by skidded off Patyari Bridge and rolled down into rivulet near Kaghot.
The ill-fated bus in which 50 passengers were on board was on way to Patyari (Ramnagar) from Udhampur, when the accident happened at Kagote.
The mishap took place at least one kilometre short of its destination and 30-kilometres away from Udhampur. The critically injured passengers were shifted to District Hospital, Udhampur for medical treatment.
And another report from IHK says; the Hurriyet leaders and other groups have strongly condemned the assault on a media reporter by Indian policemen in Srinagar.
Police had severely beaten, a reporter, Gowhar Butt on Monday at Lal Chowk while he was performing his professional duty.
Reporters Without Borders, while condemning the police action in strongest terms, said, “The policemen responsible for the gratuitous violence against a journalist must be punished.”
Held Kashmir Road Mishap,26 killed
: At least 26 people were killed and 20 others injured when two buses collided in the Udhampur district of occupied Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.
Two buses coming from opposite directions collided head-on at Panthal, about 45 km north of Jammu, police said. Bodies of 26 people have been recovered by the rescue teams and the injured have been hospitalised, a police officer said.
The officer said at least 10 injured have been brought to the Government Medical College Hospital here. The condition of all the injured is said to be critical.
“Rash driving by the drivers of the two vehicles is the reason for the accident,” an official of the traffic police said.
Held Kashmir Road Mishap,26 killed was first posted on June 24, 2009 at 1:57 pm.
IAF Airlifts Relief Supplies in Kashmir
The Indian Air Force (IAF) dropped food articles in Kashmir’’s Doda and Kishtwar districts where road connectivity has snapped after heavy rain washed off parts of a crucial highway last week.
“They are facing shortage of essential commodities. What the State Government is supplying, we will take there safely. And whatever the commodities they need, we will try to get it for them,” said Wing Commander Pawan Sharma, an IAF officer at the Udhampur Air Force Base.
Half-a-kilometer stretch of the road between Batote-Kishtwar NationalHighway-1B collapsed as water from Chenab river submerged it.
Officials said the critically ill patients were being airlifted on a priority basis.
“We have been airlifting patients almost daily. As far as patients are concerned, the critically patients who cannot be given treatment there, is concerned,” said Pawan Kotwal, divisional commissioner of Jammu.
The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has begun work on opening an alternative route on Bani-Bhaderwah road to connect the two districts. Usually the road remains closed during winter.
IAF Airlifts Relief Supplies in Kashmir was first posted on February 13, 2009 at 1:49 pm.
