Excelsior Correspondent
RAJOURI, Aug 30: At least twenty-five persons were injured and one of them seriously when a passenger bus skidded off the road and turned turtle in the maize field in Kote Behrote area of Thannamandi this evening.
Official sources said that the mishap took place at around 6.20 pm when the 42-seater bus No. JK02G/2239 was on way to Kot Behrote from Rajouri. The driver lost control over the vehicle when it was nearing its destination and it fell into the downside fields and turned turtle.
SDM Thannamandi Afzal Mirza, Tehsildar Shahid Iqbal and SHO rushed to the area along with police force and ambulance. Twenty five passengers including driver were injured and they were rushed to Thannamandi CHC and some of the victims directly to District Hospital, Rajouri by the police and locals of the area.
Seriously injured Safina, wife of Mohd Iqbal, resident of Behrote was later referred to GMC Hospital, Jammu. The other injured admitted to Rajouri and Thannamandi hospital were identified as -Nazira Begum, wife of Mohd Bashir of Bathian; Kouser Nazir, wife of Mohd Nissar from Bathian; Azhar Nawaz (3), son of Mohd Nawaz from Kalali-Manjakote; Rabia Khan, wife of Mohd Nawaz from Kalali; Shahbaz, son of Mohd Akhtar from Badda Kanna; Taseena Begum, wife of Mohd Qasim from Behrote; Zarina Kouser, wife of Mohd Akram from Badakanna; Mohd Zubair, son of Mohd Khalil of Bathian; Shokat Ali, son of Mohd Sadiq of Bathian; Mohd Israr, son of Mohd Khursheed from Dudasan Balla; Rubia Kouser, daughter of Talib Husasain from Kottan; Shaheen Begum, wife of Mohd Rashid from Dudasan Balla; Mohd Bashir, son of Haji Ali from Badakanna; Rozy (4), daughter of Mohd Niaz fron Bathian; Mohd Nawaz, son of Mohd Hanief from Kannian; Adnan (2), son of Mohd Nawaz from Kannian; Kalsoom Begum, wife of Mohd Bashir from Kottan; Mohd Sartaz, son of Mohd Rashid from Baddkanna; Mohd Zubair, son of Mohd Rafiq from Kottan; Ruksana Kouser, daughter of Mohd Talib from Kottan; Mohd Bashir, son of Nazir Hussain of Kottan; Mohd Azam, son of Sakhi Mohd of Plangar; Sarwar Jan, wife of Mohd Bashir and Showkat Hussain, son of Mohd Sadiq from Bathian.
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