By IANS
Jammu : At least six people were killed and 31 injured when the overloaded bus they were travelling in rolled down into a river in Doda district Thursday, police said.
The overloaded minibus carrying more than double its capacity of 16 was on its way to Malothi, a township on the Kishtwar-Batote highway, from Doda town, 175 km north of Jammu.
It had barely covered the first five kilometres of its journey when it skidded off the road and fell into the river Chenab, the police said.
Doda’s Senior Superintendent of Police Manohar Singh said the accident took place at around 3 p.m. “Six bodies have been recovered,” Singh said.
Doda district is notorious for road accidents because of the poor condition of roads and unchecked overloading of passenger buses due to shortage of transport.