Four Army personnel killed in Sikkim road mishap

Four Army personnel were killed in a road accident in Sikkim's Pakyong district on Thursday, the police said.

The vehicle, carrying Army's EMC personnel stationed at Binnaguri, West Bengal, skidded off the road at Vertical Bhir along the Rhenock-Rongli highway and fell into a forest down below, they said.

There were four occupants, who all died on the spot, in the vehicle, the police said.

The deceased were identified as Sepoy Pradip Patel of Madhya Pradesh, CFN W Peter of Imphal, Naik Gursev Singh of Haryana and Subedar K Thangapandi of Tamil Nadu.

The police said the cause of the accident was yet to be ascertained and the investigation was on. The bodies were handed over to the Army, the police added.