ISLAMABAD
\nAt least 10 people have been killed and 55 injured after a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to a shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir skidded off a highway bridge into a Himalayan gorge.
\nThe bus was on way to Katra town from the northern state of Punjab\u2019s Amritsar city when it fell into the gorge near Jammu city, police said on Tuesday.
\nLocal police officer Chandan Kohli told reporters that the bus was overloaded and that the dead were from India\u2019s eastern Bihar state.
\n\u201cRescue operation is almost completed. A team from the State Disaster Response Force is also on the spot,\u201d Kohli said.
\nThe chief secretary of the region, Arun Kumar Mehta, visited the injured who are being treated at Jammu Medical College hospital.
\nThe shrine of Vaishno Devi in Katra is highly revered by Hindus and hundreds of thousands visit it every year.
\nA total of 805 people died and 8,372 others were injured in 6,092 road accidents in the Jammu and Kashmir region in 2022, according to traffic police data for 10 years from 2010 to 2022, released in March.
\nDuring the first four months of this year, 254 people were killed and more than 2,300 others were injured in 1812 accidents, the majority of which occurred in the Jammu region, the data shows.
\nJammu accounted for the highest number (551) of fatalities and injuries (6,585) between 2018 and 2022.
\nIn comparison, Srinagar, the erstwhile summer capital, reported 229 accident deaths and 1,776 injuries during the same period.
\nThe high number of accidents in Jammu has been attributed to poor road conditions, drunk and rash driving and overloading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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