AJK road accident: Woman, three girl students die

MUZAFFARABAD: In a tragic road accident three college girls and a woman lost their lives while a man driving a car and a minor boy were injured when car fell into a ravine near Balgran Pataykha, some 40 kilometres from here on Thursday. According to the police the car skidded off the road near Laiswa bypass and fell into a deep ravine killing three first year students of Government Girls Degree College Pataykha and a woman on the spot. The rescue workers of Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) rushed to the spot and pulled out the bodies and the injured from the wreckage of the car. They were shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Pataykha and later handed over to their family. The injured driver, identified as Rahim Mughal and a four-year-old boy, Amir Mughal were shifted to the THQ hospital Pataykha where the doctors said their condition was stable. Those killed in the tragic accident were identified as Nazia, Fazeelat, Rehana and Shahnaz Bagum.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2014.