Baramulla, Oct 12: Three people were killed and five others injured in two separate road accidents in Pattan and Magam areas of north Kashmir on Sunday, officials said.
In the first incident, a man was killed and his father injured after a dumper collided with their Tata Ace vehicle near Hyderbeigh in Pattan area of Baramulla district on Sunday night.
An official said the father-son duo sustained injuries in the collision and were shifted to Sub-District Hospital (SDH) Pattan for treatment.
“While one of them succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, the other was referred to JVC Hospital for advanced treatment,” the official said.
The deceased was identified as Murtaza Shabir Bhat, a resident of Bijbehara in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. His injured father was identified as Shabir Ahmad Bhat, also a resident of Bijbehara.
The cause of the accident was not immediately known, and authorities have taken cognisance of the incident, the official added.
In a separate accident at Neelipora in Magam, two people were killed and four others injured after an Alto car collided with a motorcycle on Sunday.
According to officials, the Alto, bearing registration number JK05A-8562, collided with the motorcycle (JK09E-8313), leaving two people dead on the spot and four others injured.
The occupants of both vehicles were shifted to a hospital for medical assistance, officials said.
The identities of the two deceased had not been ascertained at the time of filing this report. The circumstances leading to the collision are being verified.
