Four die after car falls into AJK river

Few bodies were lying near the bank of the Neelum River in Choon Village, say Police

MUZAFFRABAD:

Four members of a family died and one woman sustained injuries after a car fell 2,000 feet down into a river at Patika, some 30 kilometres from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, police and rescuers said on Sunday.

According to the police, they received information that a few bodies were lying near the bank of the Neelum River in Choon Village near Patika in the early morning.

The rescuers retrieved four bodies and one injured woman from the spot and shifted them to a hospital, they added.

The victims were travelling in a Suzuki car from Patika to Devliyan village in Neelum Valley when they met with an accident on Saturday night. The victims were identified as Arif, Zameer, Adil and Hassan Jan, while the injured woman was identified as Shakeela Bibi.