Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced compensation of Rs. 2 lakh for the next of kin of the Amarnath pilgrims killed in a bus accident in in Jammu and Kashmir and Rs. 50,000 for those seriously injured.
Sixteen Amarnath pilgrims were killed and around 27 injured, 19 of them critically, when their bus skidded off the Jammu-Srinagar national highway and fell into a deep nullah in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir today, officials said.
Earlier, PM Modi expressed pain at the loss of lives.
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