Excelsior Correspondent
RAMBAN, Apr 4: An Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel died on spot after the car he was driving went out of control and plunged into several hundred feet deep gorge in Maroog area here on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in wee hours of Tuesday.
Police sources said that a Srinagar bound car bearing registration JK18B-3678 went out of control of its driver and plunged into a 1500 feet deep gorge near Maroog killing driver of the vehicle on the spot.
They said after getting information rescue teams of Police, SDRF and volunteers of Civil QRT reached the spot and retrieved the body from several hundred feet deep gorge and shifted it to District Hospital Ramban.
Police identified the deceased as Indian Air Force sergeant (SGT), Sarfaraaz Ahmed Bhat, 33, son of Mohd Jabbar Bhat, resident of Panwah, Kulgam, posted at Directorate of Mechanical Transport in Air Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi.
He was heading towards his native place Kulgam on leave.
SHO Police Station Ramban, Anil Chowdary while confirming the incident said after conducting post mortem at District Hospital and after completing other legal formalities the body of deceased was handed over to his relatives this afternoon for last rites.
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