Jammu Kashmir/7 ITBP Men Killed, Over 30 Others Injured In Pahalgam Accident

*7 ITBP Men Killed, Over 30 Others Injured In Pahalgam Accident*

*2 JKP Men Also Injured, Admitted With Others In Army Hospital Srinagar*

Srinagar, August 16 (GNS): At least seven personnel of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were killed while 32 others and two men from J&K police were injured after a bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and rolled down to a gorge near Zig Chandanwari in Anantnag district of south Kashmir on Tuesday.

The bus carrying 41 personnel—39  from ITBP, and two JKP men, deployed for yatra duties—was returning from Chandanwari Pahalgam when driver lost control over it and the vehicle fell into gorge, official sources told GNS. Under what circumstance the driver lost control was not immediately known, they said. Four ITBP personnel died on the spot and three others succumbed to injuries while being shifted to hospital, they said. At least 32 other ITBP personnel and two JK policeman suffered injuries, mostly serious, have been shifted to nearby hospital, the officials sa