Celebration of a birth day proved fatal as three persons-all in their 20s-died while two others were seriously injured in a road accident. The car they were travelling in after celebrating the special day of one of the deceased plunged into a gorge near Kanda/Bhasura bend near Mandakhal on the Pauri--Paubo motor road under Pauri Tehsil on Monday night. Police said that the car was going from Paubo to Pauri. Among the deceased was Abhishek whose birthday the friends were celebrating. He was behind the wheels of the ill-fated car, police said.
According the information received from the office of the senior superintendent of police, the trio died on the spot while the two injured were rushed to the district hospital in Pauri from where they were referred to the Base Hospital Srinagar and later to a higher facility in Dehradun. Police said that the accident had occurred at around 8 am on Monday. Upon being informed, Pauri Kotwali police team along with a rescue team, a fire station team and a revenue team rushed to the accident site and brought the bodies and the injured on the road.
A per police sources, the five friends went to Paubo to celebrate the birthday of Abhishek in a Swift bearing the number UK-12C-0350 and while returning to Pauri with Abhishek being behind the wheels, the accident occurred. The deceased trio has been identified as Manjeet Singh, 23, resident of Circuit House, Pauri; Madhav, 22, resident of Tehsil Mohalla and Abhishek Rawat, 24, resident of Joshi Bhawan Pauri. The injured are Rahul Bisht, 24, of Srinagar and Vivek Bhushan residing near police line in Pauri. During the evening, there were unofficial reports of one of the injured succumbing to injuries but the district magistrate and SSP stated that they had not received such information till the time of this report being filed.