Thirty nine passengers were killed and 17 others injured as a bus rolled down into a deep gorge in the Chenab Valley’s Doda district on Wednesday.
The condition of one of the injured is still critical, the officials added.
The accident took place around 11.50 a.m. when the bus, travelling from Kishtwar to Jammu, fell off the road at Trungal Assar on the highway. A major rescue operation was launched by the police and administration.
