RAMBAN/JAMMU: Five people were killed and another was critically injured when a private passenger vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a 600-feet gorge in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Saturday.

The SUV met with the accident near Senabathi in Ukhral Pogal Paristan area late Friday, they said.

Rescuers found one of the passengers Tauqeer Ahmad (20) dead at the spot while five other critically injured people were rushed to a hospital but three of them — Mohd Rafiq (40), Abdul Latief (40) and Ajaz Ahmad (20) – succumbed to their injuries enroute.