A Government official, his wife and their three children were among seven members of a family killed on Monday after their vehicle skidded off the road and rolled down into a river in hilly Rajouri district of Jammu & Kashmir, the police said.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti expressed shock and grief over the accident and said the growing number of road incidents in the hilly areas of the State call for review of the status of passenger safety, vehicle and road conditions and other parametres. Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Yougal Manhas told PTI that seven members of the family, travelling in their private car, were killed in the accident, which occurred near Narian around 5 pm. He said the police rushed to the scene of the accident and retrieved all the seven bodies from the vehicle.