Five killed as car plunges into rivulet in Doda district
JAMMU : Five people, including three children, were killed after the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a rivulet in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on Friday, police said.
“It was an Eeco van on its way from Gool to Thathri, which skidded off the road and plunged into Raggi Nullah at around 9.30am. Five occupants, including the driver and three children, died,” Mumtaz Ahmed, Doda’s senior superintendent of police, said.
“The road where the accident has taken place is in good condition. It seems the driver was drowsy but the exact cause will be known only after investigations,” he added. The deceased have been identified as driver Mohammaad Asif, 32, Tasleema Begum, 35, wife of Shahnawaz, and her two minor children—Sehr,6, and Shahdev,3, and Kamran Mushtaq,12, son of Mushtaq Ali, all the residents of Gool. The driver has been identified as Mohammad
Asif, a resident of Deeda village of Gool. Another deceased was identified as Tasleema Begum from Thathri. On Thursday, a head constable of Jammu and Kashmir police and five members of his family went missing after their car rolled 150 feet down into a rivulet called Bhot Nullah in adjoining Kishtwar district. The rivulet is a tributary of River Chenab in
Gulabgarh area of Kishtwar district. Those missing have been identified as head constable Mulkh Raj Sharma, Munni Devi, Kailasho Devi, Anamika Devi, Shallu Devi and Kaki Devi. “Only a cloth has been found from the slope but no clue so far of those who went missing,” said Rajinder Singh Tara, Kishtwar’s district commissioner.