Altaf Hamid Rao:
MIRPUR (AJK): March 16: In Azad Jammu Kashmir five person, including a woman lost lives and 03 others injured, 02 of them seriously, when a passenger coaster wagon skidded off the road and fell into a ravine in Haveli district of Poonch division on Sunday, police said.
The ill-fated Rawalpindi-bound coaster met the accident by having been skidded of the snow-clad road and felling down into the ravine on way from Forward Kahuta in the Haveli district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Forward Kahota police sources told this Correspondent Sunday when contacted.
Four of the ill fated male passengers died on the spot . whereas an only woman succumbed to her serious injuries on way to the DHQ hospital, the sources added.
The ill-fated coach was on way from Rawalpindi early Sunday morning from Forward Kahuta, the district headquarters of AJK’s Haveli District.
According to details some passengers had disembarked while reaching Parthan Wali Ziarat — some 20 KM from Forward Kahuta town in Haveli – whereas some passengers remained aboard as the driver attempted to park through some icy section of the roadside.
The deceased were identified as Abdul Rauf Rathore, son of Khan Muhammad; Malik Sher Baz, son of Suba Khan Awan; Chaudhry Muhammad Khurshid, son of Muhammad Din Gujjar; Khalid Hussain, son of Nek Alam; and Shamim, wife of Qayyum Khan Rathore, according to the police sources who added that the injured included Arif Ali, son of Chaudhry Sultan; Imran Ayub, son of Muhammad Ayub; and Zeeshan, son of Khalid Gulshan.
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