HAJIRA: Two tourists from Punjab lost their lives while one was injured when they fell from a height during their visit to Tararkhal Garata Paar waterfall in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Sunday. The injured was shifted to a hospital at Tararkhal. AJK is no stranger to incidents like these as it was on June 12, 2023 that at least nine people were killed while 18 others were injured after a coaster fell into a ravine. The vehicle, bearing registration number IOT-1493, was returning from Nairiyan, a remote village in AJK’s Sudhnoti district, to Gujranwala. As the vehicle reached near Jarai village at around 1:00 am, it fell into a ravine due to the “negligence of the driver who was unfamiliar with the area”, said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kotli Riaz Mughal, adding, “The skid marks on the road suggest the speeding vehicle spun out of the driver’s control before plunging into the ditch, ” he said, adding that there were between 28 to 30 people on board the coaster. DNA
