Rajouri/Jammu: An army personnel died and another got injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said.
The accident took place near Badog village in Kalakote late this evening, the officials said.
Naik Badri Lal and Sepoy Jai Prakash were found critically injured by the rescuers and shifted to hospital, they said, adding that Lal succumbed in the hospital
The injured army personnel has been shifted to army medical center at Kalakote army battalion. The deceased army personnel has been identified as Naik Badri Lal.
Meanwhile, a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was found dead under suspicious circumstances at his rented accommodation here, officials said.
Nitish Kumar (33), a resident of Pathankot in Punjab, was found hanging from the ceiling in his room at the Paloura locality in the outskirts of the city, they said.
The officials said Kumar, posted at the Jammu headquarters of the BSF, was putting up at the private accommodation, along with his wife and their minor child.