Srinagar: Fourteen persons were killed in separate road accidents in Anantnag and Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir; official sources told on Friday.
They said that a Tata Sumo (JK19-2095) on way to Shahdra Sharief shrine from Gool skidded off the road and rolled down into a nearly 500-ft deep gorge at Dhamni area in Reasi district this afternoon.
11 persons including two women and a boy were killed and three children were injured in the mishap, they.
Five of the deceased have been identified as Mohammad Iqbal, Abdul Aziz, Shamim Ahmad, Ghulam Mohammad and driver Manzoor Ahmad.
The injured have been shifted to government medical college here, they said.
In another incident, three persons of a marriage party were killed when a car, Alto (JK01L-6850) rammed into a parked truck (JK14-5901) at Urnhal Bijbhera in southern Anantnag district. Three persons, Mohammad Rafiq Bhat son of Ghulam Ahmad of Saraf Kadal, Nissar Hussain Dar(12) son of Ghulam Hassan of MR Gunj here and Mohammad Ashraf Wani son of Mohammad Subhan of Saraf Kadal, were killed on the spot while two others—Javeed Ahmed Bhat son of Mohammad Altaf of Laxmanpora Batamaloo and Mursalin Magray son of Sonullah Magray of Bazaar-i-Batamaloo were injured.