Ganderbal, July 28 -- Several Amarnath Yatra pilgrims were injured on Tuesday when their bus skidded off the road and rolled into a gorge near Hariganiwan in Gund area of central Kashmir's Ganderbal district, officials said.

The accident occurred along the S-Mode stretch when the driver lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a sharp curve on the mountainous route, they said. The bus, carrying pilgrims to the cave shrine, overturned and plunged into the roadside gorge.

Soon after the mishap, a massive multi-agency rescue operation was launched involving personnel from the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Army, CRPF, ITBP and Assam Rifles, besides local volunteers, officials said. Teams from the 21 Rashtriya Rifles, CRPF's 118 Battalion a...