Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK): Five people, including three women and two men, belonging to a same family were killed and 9 others, belonging to the same family, were injured as the vehicle, in which they were traveling, fell into deep ravine at Puljora village on Mirpur-Kotli Highway, about 30 kilometer from Mirpur city on Sunday, police said.
The ill-fated persons were on way to the forward town of Nikayal in Kotli district after attending the funeral of one of their relatives in Gujranwala.
According to details, 14 of the people, aboard a specially-hired Toyota Hi-Ace Wagon, were getting back to Nikayal after attending the last rites of one of their relatives who had died Saturday night in Gujranwala. The driver lost control of four-wheeler and skidded of the road felling into deep ditch leaving five of its occupants dead on the spot and nine others injured, three of them seriously.
The injured were rushed to Mirpur Divisional Headquarter Hospital where their condition of three of them is stated to be critical. Police have booked the wagon driver and further investigations are in progress.