ITBP officer dies, 14 pilgrims injured
Thursday - June 29, 2017 3:20 pm ,
Category : INDIA
ITBP officer dies, 14 pilgrims injured
Jammu June 29 (IANS) An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officer deployed on Amarnath Yatra duty died of heart attack on Thursday while 14 pilgrims were injured in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir.
ITBP Assistant Sub-Inspector Sanjun Singh died at the Baltal base camp area in the morning officials said.
The officer complained of chest pain. When he was shifted to a dispensary doctors declared him dead a police officer said.
Meanwhile bus carrying Amarnath Yatra pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh to the Kashmir Valley collided with a truck at Lakhanpur on the Pathankot-Jammu highway in Kathua district.
The injured including 14 pilgrims were shifted to a hospital at Kathua police said.
--IANS
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