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.
An army vehicle moving as part of routine convoy on 04 May, slid off the road & fell into a gorge near Ramban. All three Army personnel travelling in the vehicle succumbed to the injuries in this tragic accident. #NorthernCommand stands firm with the bereaved families in this…
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“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.
#WATCH | Ramban, J&K: SSP Ramban Kulbir Singh says, "A very unfortunate incident, an accident has taken place. Driver of an 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… https://t.co/OqgwS35yls pic.twitter.com/rb4n91YMDt
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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.
