Three Amarnath pilgrims injured as boulder falls on bus

Three Amarnath pilgrims were today injured after a boulder rolled down a hill and fell on a bus carrying devotees on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, police said.

A boulder slid down a hill and hit a bus carrying Amarnath pilgrims at the Nachlana belt on the highway in Ramban district. The devotees were returning after paying obeisance at the cave shrine, a police official said.

Three pilgrims, identified as Ajay Dubey and Chander Kishore of Uttar Pradesh -- and Pradeep Kumar of Bihar, were injured in the incident and were hospitalised.