AWANTIPORA: A youth died and another person was injured in a road mishap on the Srinagar-Jammu highway near Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday morning, police said.
The deceased was identified by police as 25-year-old Mukhtar Ahmad Hajam, son of Abdul Khaliq, a resident of Goripora village of Pulwama.
As per SHO Awantipora, Madassir Naseer, Hajam was traveling on a scooter bearing registration number JK02AS/3545 driven by Mohammad Jamal son of Ghulam Ahmad Dar, resident of Lalpora Chatlam Pampora when the two-wheeler collided with a Tata mobile bearing registration number JK01AD/4026 at Srinagar-Jammu highway near Nambal, Charsoo area of Awantipora.
While the driver sustained injury, Hajam died on the spot in the collision, Naseer told Kashmir Reader. The injured driver shifted to hospital.
He said an FIR has been registered into the case at police station Awantipora and tata mobile vehicle has been seized and its driver arrested.

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