Eleven students of a computer coaching institute died and six others were injured on Thursday when their minibus fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’sShopian district, police said.
The vehicle fell into the gorge near Peer Ki Gali on Mughal Road while it was carrying students from the Poonch-based institute, a police official told mediapersons.
He said 11 students, nine of them female, died in the accident while six others were injured. The injured were moved to a Shopian hospital, police said.
Expressing grief over the loss of lives, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the next of the kin of the deceased.
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