Banihal: Two persons died when a load carrier carrying fresh vegetables skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Ramban district on Saturday, a police officer said.
Driver Arshid Ahmad and his helper Seva Singh, aged around 30, were en route to their village Ukhral Pogal-Paristan with the vegetables when the accident occurred near Battery Cheshma on Jammu-Srinagar national highway, he said.
The officer said the bodies were retrieved from a several hundred feet deep gorge in a joint rescue operation by police and local volunteers.
