3 killed, 18 injured in Kashmir accidents

Srinagar Sep 5 (UNI) Three people were killed and 18 wounded in saparate accidents overnight in Kashmir, official sources said today.

A driver was injured critically, when a suv he was driving skidded off the road near Uran Hall Bijbehara. The injured Suran Singh was shifted to hospital where he died.

An 8-year-old boy Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat was killed on the spot when a vehicle hit him at Sagam, Kokernag, in south Kashmir district of Anantnag while one Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat was wounded when he fell from a tractor at Ladden in central Kashmir. He was rushed to hospital where he succumbed.

The sources said 18 passengers were injured, two of them critically, when their vehicle met with an accident at Dar Mohalla, Bandipora, about 55 km from here. The injured were hospitalised.

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