Elderly woman dies in road accident in Bandipora
Bandipora: An elderly woman died after being run over by an army truck in Nadihal village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Wednesday.
Locals said the accident took place around 1:30 PM this afternoon when a convoy of trucks was passing through the area.
One of the army trucks ran over the elderly woman identified as Gul Jani, wife of Abdul Rehman, a resident of Aragam village of Bandipora, resulting in her on-spot death.
Soon after the incident, local police reached the spot and recovered the woman’s body from beneath the truck.
A police spokesman said that the body of the woman was shifted to a hospital for completion of medico-legal formalities.
“In this regard, a case under relevant sections of law has been registered and the vehicle has also been seized. Further investigation of the case is going on,” he said.
Kashmir Images is an English language daily newspaper published from Srinagar (J&K), India. The newspaper is one of the largest circulated English dailies of Kashmir and its hard copies reach every nook and corner of Kashmir Valley besides Jammu and Ladakh region.
