Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Nov 2: In a tragic road accident, an 18-month old child along with mother among three persons died while three other members of the same family were critically injured when the car, they were travelling in, rolled down in deep gorge at Chemelu Morh on Malikote -Chassana road, here this morning.
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The accident took place in the wee hours when the Eeco car, bearing registration number JK20C- 6326, veered off the road at Chamelu Morh and plunged into a 200-300-foot deep gorge .
The family members were on way from their native village Malikote to Chassana when their car met with the accident, resulting into on the spot death of mother and her child among three persons.
The deceased were identified as Kulcha Devi (27), wife of Chankar Singh, her son Neeraj Singh (18 months) and nephew Sandhoor Singh (23), son of Sukhdev Singh.
The injured were identified as Kulcha Devi’s husband Chankar Singh (32), son of Janak Singh, nephew Ajay Singh (18), son of Sukhdev Singh and brother in-law Dhumkar Singh (19), son of Janak Singh.
The injured , all from Malikote, Tehsil Chassana in District Reasi, were rescued by the locals and rushed to the nearby Hospital. Later, they were referred to District Hospital Rajouri for advanced treatment. There have purportedly sustained multiple injuries and condition of all of them was stated to be critical.
Because of darkness in the wee hours , when the accident took place, locals faced difficulty in rescuing the victims and taking them to roadside from gorge.
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