NEELUM VALLEY:
Four Pakistan Army soldiers were martyred on Sunday when their truck fell into a river in Neelum Valley’s Changan area.
According to the Neelum police, the driver of the cargo truck of the Pakistan Army, which was travelling from Batrasi to Mandkaro, lost control of the vehicle and plunged into a deep gorge.
As soon as the information about the accident was received, armed forces and civil rescue teams reached the spot and initiated a rescue operation.
It was further reported that the bodies of the martyred soldiers were pulled from the river and shifted to a nearby hospital.
Read Accident: Four dead as military truck falls into ravine
Last year, nine soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred and four injured when their truck plunged into a ravine in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), according to the military’s media wing.
The truck — part of a military convoy — was heading towards Mang Bajri in Bagh district when the incident occurred near Shujaabad, some 12km before its destination, at about 4 am on Aug 21, Reuters quoted military officials as saying.
Local police said that the truck fell 500 feet down the ravine.
A police official said the noise from the crash alerted nearby residents. He added that the residents rushed to the scene with cellular phones and lanterns to carry out rescue work.
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