29 injured as bus falls into deep gorge in Poonch

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Press Trust of India Jammu
Last Updated : May 03 2014 | 9:05 PM IST
At least 29 people were injured, 9 of them critically, when a passenger bus skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district today.
The bus, which was on its way to Poonch from Jammu, skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge at Dharati in Krishna Ghati area of Poonch district this afternoon, police said.
In the mishap, 29 people were injured, nine of them seriously, they said adding police and army launched rescue operation and evacuated all the injured from the accident site and admitted them in a hospital.
Later, nine critically injured were shifted to Government Medical College hospital in Jammu, they said.
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First Published: May 03 2014 | 9:05 PM IST

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