39 killed in bus accident in J&K’s Doda, 17 injured
Hindustan TimesAt least 39 people died and 17 others were injured after a passenger bus veered off a mountain road and rolled 300 feet down a hill onto another road in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. Security personnel and rescue workers gather beside the wrecked bus, subject to an accident on a remote mountain road in the Doda area, about 200 kilometres southeast of the Srinagar on November 15, 2023. The private bus — with 56 people, including the driver, on board — left Kishtwar around 8.20am for the five-hour and 200km long journey to Jammu, but around 11.50am, the driver of the bus lost control in Doda district’s Assar area, said the police. Umar, another rescuer, who goes by one name, said, “We saw marks of tyres on the road where the bus went down the hill, indicating the driver had applied the brakes, but in vain.” “It was a bend but the road, being NH244, was wide enough for two vehicles to pass easily.