3 soldiers die after Army vehicle falls into gorge in J&K’s Ramban

Three soldiers died after an Army truck they were travelling in fell into a 500-metre deep gorge at Battery Chashma in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.

 

Teams of local police, the Quick Reaction Team (QRT), the Army and the CRPF have reached the spot, and efforts to retrieve the bodies are on.

 

“The driver of the Army vehicle, which was part of a convoy, lost control of the vehicle, and it rolled down a gorge about 500 metres below. Three people were in the vehicle...Unfortunately, all three of them died,” Ramban Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kulbir Singh told ANI.

 

The deceased were identified as sepoys Amit Kumar, Sujeet Kumar and Man Bahadur. According to officials, the crash reduced the vehicle to a mangled heap of metal.

 

The Army truck was part of a convoy moving from Jammu to Srinagar along National Highway 44 when the accident occurred around 11.30 am.

 

Singh said initial findings suggested that a mechanical failure might have caused the accident.

 

"When we inspected the spot, we found a nut bolt there, which could probably have come from the steering wheels. So, I think the driver lost control of the steering wheel due to that nutbolt. This seems to be prima facie the cause of the accident. However, things will be clear only after an investigation," he told the news agency.

 

 

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