NAINITAL: An Army truck carrying soldiers from a training camp fell into a 50-foot gorge in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand killing four soldiers and injuring 24 others, two of them seriously.
Police said a brake failure caused the accident on Saturday night at Koruwa Kwarna, 10 km from the Chakrata cantonment. The soldiers were from a Gorkha batallion posted at Dharchula in Pithorgarh district on the India-Tibet border.
The soldiers were returning to Dharchula from the Army's training facility at Chakrata after a 15-day refresher course. All the four jawans died on the spot, police said.
The two seriously injured soliders were shifted to the Army hospital in New Delhi while the others were admitted to the Chakrata Army hospital.
Soruce:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/4-jawans-killed-24-injured-in-accident/articleshow/4170953.cms
Police said a brake failure caused the accident on Saturday night at Koruwa Kwarna, 10 km from the Chakrata cantonment. The soldiers were from a Gorkha batallion posted at Dharchula in Pithorgarh district on the India-Tibet border.
The soldiers were returning to Dharchula from the Army's training facility at Chakrata after a 15-day refresher course. All the four jawans died on the spot, police said.
The two seriously injured soliders were shifted to the Army hospital in New Delhi while the others were admitted to the Chakrata Army hospital.
Soruce:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/4-jawans-killed-24-injured-in-accident/articleshow/4170953.cms
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