Three persons including one woman died when their vehicle being plied from Ghaziabad to Pauri fell down a gorge near Parsundakhal on the Kotdwar-Pauri highway early on Wednesday morning. Expressing grief at the fatal mishap, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat ordered ex gratia of `50,000 for each of the bereaved next of kin of the deceased and `20,000 financial assistance for the the injured, informed the Pauri district magistrate Chandrashekhar Bhatt.
The Pauri district Senior Superintendent of Police Mukhtar Mohsin said that a jeep fell down into a gorge near Parsundakhal on Kotdwar-Pauri highway on Wednesday at around 6.30 AM. The Pauri police and revenue police reached the spot on getting the information and conducted the rescue work.
Pauri police Kotwali station house officer Kailash Chandra Bhatt said that three persons died on the spot while one injured has been admitted to district hospital at Pauri for treatment. Those who died have been identified as Harish Chandra Jugran (68 years), his wife Beena Jugran (58 years) resident of Jugran Bhawan, near DAV Inter college Pauri and the jeep driver Jagjeet Singh , resident of laxminagar, Delhi while the injured has been identified as Anuj Jugran, son of the late ativist Harish Jugran. The Jugran family were coming from Ghaziabad to Pauri in the jeep number UP-14BT-4602 when it met with an accident.