Punjab Newsline | Kinnaur
Four people, including a mother-son duo, were killed and one person was seriously injured after a car plunged into a deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district on Saturday morning.
The accident took place on the Tapri-Jani link road when the car (HP 26B-8999), carrying five people, was heading from Tapri towards Jani village. According to police, the vehicle reportedly went out of control near a tower, a short distance from Tapri, at around 8:30 am and plunged nearly 150 metres into a gorge.
After receiving information from local residents, a police team from Tapri police station rushed to the spot. With the assistance of locals, police personnel carried out a rescue operation and retrieved the bodies of the deceased and the injured person from the gorge.
The deceased have been identified as Krishna (42), wife of Naresh Kumar, and her son Himesh Kumar (19), both residents of Jani village in Nichar; Sushma (47), wife of Roshan Lal, a resident of Grange in Nichar; and Inder Lal (30), son of Hari Lal, a resident of Jani village.
The car driver, Vidya Krishna (32), son of Hari Lal and a resident of Jani, sustained serious injuries. He was rushed to JSW Hospital in Tapri for treatment.
Acting Superintendent of Police and DSP Bhavnagar Raj Kumar confirmed that four people had died in the accident, while the driver was injured. The bodies were handed over to the families after post-mortem examinations.
Police have registered a case and initiated an investigation to ascertain the exact cause of the accident.
Meanwhile, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu expressed grief over the death of four people in the car accident on the Jani link road near Bhavnagar in Kinnaur district. He also prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured driver.
