Eight folks had been killed when a bus carrying over 75 pilgrims from Amritsar in Punjab to the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu & Kashmir’s Katra veered off a bridge and fell right into a gorge at Jhajjar Kotli, round 35 km from Jammu, on Tuesday morning.
“Eight pilgrims have died and over 50 injured,” mentioned Ajat Manhas, a neighborhood police officer.
A second police officer mentioned that rescuers had been instantly rushed to the scene and rushed the injured to Jammu’s Authorities Medical School and Hospital and a main well being centre in Jhajjar Kotli.
One of many pilgrims on the bus mentioned that he instantly felt a jolt earlier than the bus fell off the bridge into the gorge. He added that not less than eight to 10 have died.
One other pilgrim mentioned he was sleeping when the bus instantly went down. “There was chaos throughout…”
Vivek, a neighborhood resident, mentioned that he noticed the bus taking place round 5.30am. “…I noticed this bus being pushed at a excessive velocity on a curve. It seems that both the motive force misplaced management or the brakes failed. I together with a number of different locals instantly went down into the gorge and after a while police and CRPF officers reached the spot.”
That is the second such accident within the space since Might 21 when a pilgrim died, and 23 others had been wounded in Katra’s Moori.