Five individuals, together with a girl, have been killed and 15 others sustained accidents after a mini bus skidded off the highway and plunged into a deep gorge in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police stated.

The accident came about at Sila village of Billawar in the night when the driving force misplaced management of the personal bus whereas negotiating a blind curve, they stated.

According to police, the bus was on its method to Dhanu Parole village from Mondli village.

Four individuals together with a 60-year-old girl have been discovered useless on the spot by rescuers, whereas 16 others have been rushed to a hospital the place one in every of them succumbed to accidents, they stated.

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