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Twelve die in Himachal accident
Monday April 15, 2013 10:41:43 AM,
IANS
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Shimla: Twelve
people, some of them children, were killed in Himachal Pradesh's
Chamba district when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell
into a 700-metre-deep gorge while they were on their way back from
playing a cricket match, police said Monday.
The accident took place Sunday night. The victims were all between
11 and 25 years old. They died on the spot and their bodies were
recovered from the wreckage early Monday, Superintendent of Police
B.M. Sharma told IANS over phone.
The group, from Kuthar and other villages in Badgran panchayat in
Bharmour subdivision, were returning in a multi-utility vehicle
after playing a cricket match.
Sharma said the accident occurred Sunday night near the Kuthar
rivulet, 80 km from district headquarters Chamba. The cause of the
accident is still to be ascertained.
Eyewitnesses said the authorities had a tough time extricating the
victims from the gorge.
Chamba is one of remotest places in the state and scarcity and low
frequency of passenger buses in the district leads to overcrowding
of vehicles.
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