JK News Today

Jammu, May 7: One BSF trooper was killed and six others were injured when a BSF vehicle they were travelling in met with an accident in Mankote sector of Poonch district on Sunday.

Official sources said that a BSF Vehicle Tata-407 (HR39 A 8662) skidded off the road and fell into about 250-feet deep gorge, leading to the injuries to seven personnel.

The injured personnel were later shifted to hospital and one of them identified as constable Ram Chandran of 158 battalion BSF succumbed to his injuries, said a source.

Chandran had suffered a serious head injury and succumbed while being shifted to the hospital.