A woman from Andhra Pradesh died while ten others were injured when the private tourist vehicle they were travelling in careened off the road into an agriculture field about 10 metres down the roadside on Sunday morning.
The tourist vehicle was plying from Badrinath to Delhi when the mishap occurred near Mullya village on the Badrinath-Rishikesh national highway in an area falling under the jurisdiction of Tehri district authorities in the Garhwal region of the State.
Talking to The Pioneer, the Devprayag police thana SHO Hemant Khanduri informed that the private tourist mini-bus bearing the license plate number Dl 1PD 1671 was on its way back from Badrinath shrine when it went out of control off the road and landed on a field about ten metres below the roadside. The mishap occurred at a spot on the national highway near Mullya village situated at a distance of about 13 kilometres from Devprayag. The authorities have so far not been able to ascertain the exact cause of the accident which took place at about 11 am on Sunday morning.
The accident caused the death of a woman aged about 50 years who has been identified as Sudha Rani, wife of Manjunath, a resident of the Anantapur district of AP. The ten other persons travelling in the tourist vehicle were reported to have sustained only minor injuries.