Eight individuals have been killed and 50 different injured when a bus carrying pilgrims to the Vaishno Devi shrine skidded off the street and plunged right into a gorge a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir, police stated on Tuesday.
The bus was travelling from Amritsar when the incident occurred on the Jammu-Srinagar nationwide freeway, close to Jajjar Kotli space.
Assistant Commandant Ashok Choudhary of the central reserve police porce (CRPF) stated, a joint operation involving the CRPF, police, and different groups is underway to conduct a rescue mission. He added {that a} crane has been deployed to see if extra individuals are trapped underneath the bus.
“Ambulances have been known as and the injured have been instantly rushed to hospital. Our bodies have additionally been taken to the hospital. A crane is being introduced right here to see if somebody is trapped underneath the bus. A rescue operation is underway,” Choudhary was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
“We’re being advised that the bus was coming from Amritsar and that individuals from Bihar have been onboard. They maybe misplaced their technique to Katra and reached right here,” he added.