Six people died and two were injured when a jeep they were travelling in met with an accident in Badkot tehsil of Uttarkashi on Thursday morning.
The incident has exposed the district administration’s lackadaisical approach because they reached the accident site three hours after the accident. Meanwhile, local residents managed to rescue four out of eight passengers alive, but two died on way to a nearby hospital.They were travelling to Vikasnagar from Kandari village in a multi-utility vehicle, but as the vehicle reached Badkot tehsil, the driver lost control and the vehicle fell 200 metres down the road into a gorge.
later, local inhabitants reached the spot and found four persons had died on the spot and the remaining four, who were alive, were rescued.Two out of the four succumbed to their injuries while being taken to a nearby hospital.The remaining two were referred to Dehradun for further treatment.According to police, the accident occurred on the Sahigaad-Damta highway around 0815 hrs today when the driver lost control and the vehicle rolled into the deep gorge. Uttarakhand Governor Dr Aziz Qureshi has expressed grief over the accident.