SRINAGAR: A total of 21 soldiers were injured in road accident on Tuesday in Rajouri district, police said.
“Twenty one soldiers including a junior commissioned officer (JCO) were injured in a road accident in Nowshera sector of the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district today (Tuesday) when the driver lost control of the vehicle they were in and it fell into a gorge,” a senior police officer told IANS here.
The vehicle belonged to 54 Battalion of counter-insurgency Rashtriya Rifles.
The injured were shifted to a local hospital immediately after the accident where attending doctors referred four critically injured soldiers for specialized treatment to army’s base hospital in Udhampur town, the officer added.
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