Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : At least three people were killed and another injured grievously as a moving car buried under a land sliding at the torrential rains-hit top mountainous Qadirabad near Ghaziabad town of Dheerkot sub division in Bagh District of Azad Jammu Kashmir Wednesday morning, police said.
The car bearing registration No. MR – 972 – AC, with all four ill-fated persons on board, was on way from Arja village to Dheerkot city when it met the mishap at about 9.00 a.m leaving three of its occupants dead on the spot besides serious injuries to the fourth passenger of the private four-wheeler, Incharge officer of Dheerkot police station told this Correspondent over telephone Wednesday afternoon.
All three of those ill-fated persons who lost lives were identified as Police constable Shehzad Shareef son of Muhammad Shareef Mughal, an official of local town committee Muhammad Ibrar son of Banaras and Forester of AJK Forest Department Farman Ali s/o Muhammad Arif, all residents of Arja village. The only seriously injured Rashid son of Muhammad Saleem of same village was shifted to PIMS Islamabad.
Rescue operation was immediately started by the people of the area who found three of persons dead in totally smashed body of the ill-fated car. The only injured persons was shifted to the nearby hospital where he was being provided with Medicare.
Various parts of Azad Jammu Kashmir were lashed with heavy rains with snowfall on upper reaches, Bagh, Neelam valley districts besides Leepa valley for past three days causing traffic hazards due to the land sliding at various sites badly disrupting the vehicular traffic system on both inter-city and inter-district routes, the police officer said.