Car plunges into gorge in Poonch; 2 dead, 2 missing
Jammu, May 6 -- Two people died and two others went missing after their vehicle plunged into a gorge at the Mughal road amid the inclement weather in Poonch district, officials said on Tuesday.
Four people, including the driver, were ferrying a cancer patient for treatment from Poonch to Srinagar when the accident happened on late Monday night, they said.
"Four individuals travelling in a vehicle were reported missing yesterday on the Mughal Road. A cancer patient Akbar Hussain was being ferried in the car from Poonch to Srinagar. He was being accompanied Poonch residents Majid Hussain and Mohammed Basheer," the official said.
Acting on the information, Poonch district police launched a large-scale search and rescue operation in the area. "The missing vehicle was traced in a rivulet near Chhattapani on Tuesday and two bodies were recovered from the site," he added.
He informed that the search operations were still underway to locate the remaining two.
"All efforts are being made to trace them at the earliest," he said.
Army has also joined the search operation and drones are being used to spot two other missing persons.
The driver, whose identity hasn't been ascertained yet, belonged to Hari Buddha area of Surankote.
The weather improved in J&K on Tuesday with the meteorological centre predicting fair weather for next four days.
After a good spell of rain on Monday, the sky cleared and the weather was dry on Tuesday.
The MeT update said that May 6 to 9 will be mostly dry. "The four-day period will be generally dry while brief showers in the afternoons at isolated places can't be ruled out," the update said. Farmers have advised to resume farmoperations from Wednesday onwards.
The weather may yet again turn bad from May 10. " May 10 to 13 will be generally cloudy with one or two spells of light to moderate rain and thundershowers at places," update said....
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