Jammu: Two persons died when a load carrier carrying fresh vegetables skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, a police officer said.
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Jammu and Kashmir: Two killed as vehicle rolls down into gorge
Driver Arshid Ahmad and his helper Seva Singh, aged around 30, were en route to their village Ukhral Pogal-Paristan with the vegetables when the accident occurred near Battery Cheshma on Jammu-Srinagar national highway, he said.
The officer said the bodies were retrieved from several hundred feet gorge in a joint rescue operation by police and local volunteers
