Thursday, 26 July 2012

Truck plunge kills 16 pilgrims in Jammu Kashmir

The wreckage of a passenger bus. — AP Photo

SRINAGAR: Sixteen Hindus returning from the site of an annual pilgrimage in Indian Kashmir died when their truck plunged into a deep gorge, police said Friday.

The truck, carrying more than 30 pilgrims, skidded off the road and into the gorge late Thursday evening, some 50 kilometres from the Kashmiri winter capital Jammu, a police spokesman said.

“The truck rolled over. Sixteen people were killed and another 16 were injured,” the

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