Via PTI
JHAJJAR KOTLI/ JAMMU: Ten Vaishno Devi pilgrims, maximum of them from Bihar, have been killed and 57 injured on Tuesday because the bus they have been travelling in skidded off the street and rammed into the railing of a bridge prior to falling off it, officers mentioned.
The demise toll would possibly cross up as Executive Clinical Faculty Health center Most important Shashi Soodan mentioned two of the injured admitted there are important.
The officers mentioned the bus, which was once on its approach to Katra from Amritsar, met with the coincidence within the Jhajjar Kotli house at the Jammu-Srinagar Nationwide Freeway between 6.30 and seven am.
Katra is a base camp for pilgrims visiting the well-known shrine atop the Trikuta hills. They mentioned many of the travellers have been participants of a longer circle of relatives from Bihar’s Lakhisarai and have been on a pilgrimage to Vaishno Devi temple for a ritual of a kid.
CRPF and police group of workers have been at
the spot and introduced the rescue
operation. (Photograph | ANI)
“The coincidence came about at Jhajjar Kotli bridge. Ten folks have died. Rescue operation is sort of entire,” Jammu Senior Superintendent of Police Chandan Kohli mentioned.
“We’re investigating the explanations at the back of the coincidence. Native citizens, CRPF and police group of workers rushed to the spot and introduced the rescue operation. The troops of 137 CRPF battalion performed the rescue operation to evacuate injured driving force and passengers from the bus, which grew to become turtle and fell down from Jhajjar Kotli bridge at the freeway,” the drive mentioned in a tweet.
“Two individuals have been introduced useless whilst others died at the spot,” mentioned GMC health center essential Soodan.
Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbagh Singh mentioned prima facie, the reason for the coincidence gave the look to be human error or overspeeding.
“It’s imaginable that the driving force may have dozed off at the wheel. It is a top flyover more or less highway from the place the bus fell off, so the rationale may be overspeeding. It is a part of our investigation,” he mentioned.
A CRPF officer mentioned 10 our bodies had been recovered. Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha authorized an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh every for the following of relations of those that misplaced their lives and Rs 50,000 every for the ones significantly injured.
Condoling the deaths, he mentioned in a tweet, “Extraordinarily pained via the lack of lives in a sad bus coincidence in Jhajjar Kotli, Jammu. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved households & prayers for the fast restoration of the injured. Directed district management to offer all imaginable help & remedy to the injured. Ravinder Panday, one of the crucial travellers, mentioned they felt that one thing hit the bus. It misplaced steadiness and rolled down.”
Extraordinarily pained via the lack of lives in a sad bus coincidence in Jhajjar Kotli, Jammu. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved households & prayers for fast restoration of the injured. Directed district management to offer all imaginable help & remedy to the injured.
— Place of business of LG J&Ok (@OfficeOfLGJandK) Might 30, 2023
The coincidence website regarded horrific with our bodies trapped underneath the mangled stays of the bus.
Describing the coincidence, witnesses mentioned the bus was once within the left lane, but it surely crossed over to the fitting aspect after the driving force misplaced keep an eye on, hit the railing of the bridge and fell down right into a gorge.
The entrance wheels got here off and were given caught within the parapet of the bridge.
“We have been going to pay obeisance on the Mata Vaishno Devi temple and carry out ‘mundan’ (rituals associated with shaving a toddler’s hair for the primary time). We have been a number of households in combination,” mentioned Ramesh Kumar, who escaped unharmed.
For the adventure to Katra, the car, sporting a registration collection of Uttar Pradesh (UP 81 CT 3537), will have to have taken a left flip just about two km prior to the spot of the coincidence, however passengers mentioned the driving force perceived to have misplaced the path and was once more than likely going to the Udhampur-Srinagar aspect of the freeway.
Leader Secretary Arun Ok Mehta, DGP Singh, ADGP (Jammu Zone) Mukesh Singh and different senior officers visited the Jammu GMC Health center to investigate in regards to the situation of the injured.
Talking to newshounds, Mehta mentioned all imaginable lend a hand and the most efficient of remedy are being supplied to the injured. That is the 3rd large coincidence in Jammu and Kashmir this month.
Saddened to listen to in regards to the coincidence of a bus sporting pilgrims to Mata Vaishnodevi.
Ideas with the households of those that have misplaced their family members, prayers for the entire and swift restoration of the ones injured.
— Harsh Sanghavi (@sanghaviharsh) Might 30, 2023
On Might 24, seven individuals have been killed and two others seriously injured after a car ferrying staff of an influence undertaking rolled down a hill in Kishtwar district.
On Might 21, a 27-year-old girl was once killed and 24 folks have been injured when a Rajasthan-bound bus sporting Vaishno Devi pilgrims overturned in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district.
Condoling the lack of lives, BJP J&Ok president Ravinder Raina mentioned, “We stand via their households in instances of grief.” The Apni Birthday celebration additionally expressed grief over the coincidence and mentioned “would possibly Almighty give the grieving households, who misplaced their family members on this terrible coincidence, sufficient endurance to deal with the ache.”
Chairman of Democratic Revolutionary Azad Birthday celebration (DPAP) Ghulam Nabi Azad requested birthday party leaders and staff to seek advice from the spot and supply all help to the injured and sufferers.
JHAJJAR KOTLI/ JAMMU: Ten Vaishno Devi pilgrims, maximum of them from Bihar, have been killed and 57 injured on Tuesday because the bus they have been travelling in skidded off the street and rammed into the railing of a bridge prior to falling off it, officers mentioned.
The demise toll would possibly cross up as Executive Clinical Faculty Health center Most important Shashi Soodan mentioned two of the injured admitted there are important.
The officers mentioned the bus, which was once on its approach to Katra from Amritsar, met with the coincidence within the Jhajjar Kotli house at the Jammu-Srinagar Nationwide Freeway between 6.30 and seven am.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Katra is a base camp for pilgrims visiting the well-known shrine atop the Trikuta hills. They mentioned many of the travellers have been participants of a longer circle of relatives from Bihar’s Lakhisarai and have been on a pilgrimage to Vaishno Devi temple for a ritual of a kid.
CRPF and police group of workers have been at
the spot and introduced the rescue
operation. (Photograph | ANI)”The coincidence came about at Jhajjar Kotli bridge. Ten folks have died. Rescue operation is sort of entire,” Jammu Senior Superintendent of Police Chandan Kohli mentioned.
“We’re investigating the explanations at the back of the coincidence. Native citizens, CRPF and police group of workers rushed to the spot and introduced the rescue operation. The troops of 137 CRPF battalion performed the rescue operation to evacuate injured driving force and passengers from the bus, which grew to become turtle and fell down from Jhajjar Kotli bridge at the freeway,” the drive mentioned in a tweet.
“Two individuals have been introduced useless whilst others died at the spot,” mentioned GMC health center essential Soodan.
Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbagh Singh mentioned prima facie, the reason for the coincidence gave the look to be human error or overspeeding.
“It’s imaginable that the driving force may have dozed off at the wheel. It is a top flyover more or less highway from the place the bus fell off, so the rationale may be overspeeding. It is a part of our investigation,” he mentioned.
A CRPF officer mentioned 10 our bodies had been recovered. Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha authorized an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh every for the following of relations of those that misplaced their lives and Rs 50,000 every for the ones significantly injured.
Condoling the deaths, he mentioned in a tweet, “Extraordinarily pained via the lack of lives in a sad bus coincidence in Jhajjar Kotli, Jammu. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved households & prayers for the fast restoration of the injured. Directed district management to offer all imaginable help & remedy to the injured. Ravinder Panday, one of the crucial travellers, mentioned they felt that one thing hit the bus. It misplaced steadiness and rolled down.”
Extraordinarily pained via the lack of lives in a sad bus coincidence in Jhajjar Kotli, Jammu. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved households & prayers for fast restoration of the injured. Directed district management to offer all imaginable help & remedy to the injured.
— Place of business of LG J&Ok (@OfficeOfLGJandK) Might 30, 2023
The coincidence website regarded horrific with our bodies trapped underneath the mangled stays of the bus.
Describing the coincidence, witnesses mentioned the bus was once within the left lane, but it surely crossed over to the fitting aspect after the driving force misplaced keep an eye on, hit the railing of the bridge and fell down right into a gorge.
The entrance wheels got here off and were given caught within the parapet of the bridge.
“We have been going to pay obeisance on the Mata Vaishno Devi temple and carry out ‘mundan’ (rituals associated with shaving a toddler’s hair for the primary time). We have been a number of households in combination,” mentioned Ramesh Kumar, who escaped unharmed.
For the adventure to Katra, the car, sporting a registration collection of Uttar Pradesh (UP 81 CT 3537), will have to have taken a left flip just about two km prior to the spot of the coincidence, however passengers mentioned the driving force perceived to have misplaced the path and was once more than likely going to the Udhampur-Srinagar aspect of the freeway.
Leader Secretary Arun Ok Mehta, DGP Singh, ADGP (Jammu Zone) Mukesh Singh and different senior officers visited the Jammu GMC Health center to investigate in regards to the situation of the injured.
Talking to newshounds, Mehta mentioned all imaginable lend a hand and the most efficient of remedy are being supplied to the injured. That is the 3rd large coincidence in Jammu and Kashmir this month.
Saddened to listen to in regards to the coincidence of a bus sporting pilgrims to Mata Vaishnodevi.
Ideas with the households of those that have misplaced their family members, prayers for the entire and swift restoration of the ones injured.
— Harsh Sanghavi (@sanghaviharsh) Might 30, 2023
On Might 24, seven individuals have been killed and two others seriously injured after a car ferrying staff of an influence undertaking rolled down a hill in Kishtwar district.
On Might 21, a 27-year-old girl was once killed and 24 folks have been injured when a Rajasthan-bound bus sporting Vaishno Devi pilgrims overturned in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district.
Condoling the lack of lives, BJP J&Ok president Ravinder Raina mentioned, “We stand via their households in instances of grief.” The Apni Birthday celebration additionally expressed grief over the coincidence and mentioned “would possibly Almighty give the grieving households, who misplaced their family members on this terrible coincidence, sufficient endurance to deal with the ache.”
Chairman of Democratic Revolutionary Azad Birthday celebration (DPAP) Ghulam Nabi Azad requested birthday party leaders and staff to seek advice from the spot and supply all help to the injured and sufferers.
