3 from Punjab killed, 10 injured as SUV en route to Manimahesh falls into gorge

Shimla, August 28

Three devotees, including two women, from Punjab died while 10 others were injured when an SUV they were travelling in plunged into a deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba district on Wednesday, police said.

The devotees were on their way to Manimahesh in Chamba when they met with the accident around 9 am on Wednesday near Bharmour on Bharmour-Bharmani Mata Temple road.

The deceased have been identified as Neha, Diksha and Laadi alias Santroop, all residents of Pathankot.

The SUV driver lost control of the vehicle and it plunged into a deep gorge, killing three persons on the spot, said the locals who witnessed the accident and tried to rescue the injured.

Chamba Superintendent of Police Abhishek Yadav said a police team reached the spot and rescued the injured as well as recovered the bodies from the gorge.

The injured were rushed to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Government Medical College, Chamba, the police said.

The injured have been identified as Aarti, Manav, Saurav, Rajesh, Vishal Kumar, Shikha, Rahul Kumar and Gaurav, all residents of Pathankot, and Ashish and Vivek Kumar, residents of Deoria and Bulandshahr districts respectively in Uttar Pradesh, they said.