Three of a family die in Neelum accident

MUZAFFARABAD:

Three people of a family died while five other sustained injuries when a jeep they travelling in plunged into a ditch in the Neelum Valley of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), an official of the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) and eyewitnesses said on Monday.

The family from Karachi was on trip to AJK. The deceased were identified as Saram Siddiqui and his two children – 4-year-old Isha and one-and-a-half-year-old Ibrahim. His wife and his sister in law were among the injured and stated to be in critical condition.

SDMA official Akhtar Ayub said that the accident took place at Jabari.