2 die, several injured in road mishaps

Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 1: A load carrier driver was killed and six on board labourers were injured, three of them critically, after the vehicle collided with an LP truck at Tee Pee in North Kashmir’s Kupwara district this evening.
They said that the load carrier bearing registration number JK01T 6251 ferrying labourers, collided with the LP truck resulting in on spot death of load carrier driver Farooq Ahmad Khan, 26, from Marsari and six on board labourers were injured.
The injured labourers have been identified as Zakir Hussain Bahwar son of Abdul Qayoom, Zubair Ahmad Bahwar son of Ghulam Qadir Bahwar, Bashir Ahmad Lone son of Ghulam Nabi Lone, Mohammad Amin Lone son of Feroz-ud-Din Lone, Javid Ahmad Bahwar son of Ghulam Rasool Bahwar and Irshad Ahmad Bahwar son of Mohammad Shafi Bahwar. They
were evacuated to SDH Kralpora from where three persons with critical injuries were referred to DH Handwara for treatment.
Earlier in the day a private vehicle fell into a deep gorge in Kralpora resulting in the death of a 32-year-old person and injuries to three other persons.