{"id":98476,"date":"2017-07-16T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=98476"},"modified":"2017-07-16T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T12:58:43","slug":"16-amarnath-pilgrims-dead-27-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/16-amarnath-pilgrims-dead-27-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Amarnath pilgrims dead 27 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sixteen Amarnath Pilgrims were killed and 27 others wounded when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a 150-feet deep gorge near Ramban area along the Srinagar-Jammu highway on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Jammu &amp; Kashmir Police tweeted, \u201cRamban accident update. 16 dead; 19 injured being airlifted for treatment. 8 minor injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director General of J&amp;K police, Shesh Paul Vaid told media that the bus was on its way to Kashmir from Jammu when accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98480 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/amarnath-yatra-1458324831.jpg\" alt=\"16 Amarnath pilgrims dead 27 injured \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Media reports said the mishap occurred at Nichilana, about 11-km from the highway town of Banihal which is 107-km south of Srinagar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest reports from Banihal, injured passengers are being treated at the Banihal sub-district hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Witnesses said that local residents started a rescue operation immediately after the accident occurred and were soon joined by the police and a column of the Army.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-98478 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/b420b3d6-6a11-11e7-99b4-5703255acffe.jpg\" alt=\"16 Amarnath pilgrims dead 27 injured\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/b420b3d6-6a11-11e7-99b4-5703255acffe.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/b420b3d6-6a11-11e7-99b4-5703255acffe-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/b420b3d6-6a11-11e7-99b4-5703255acffe-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of the State Disaster Management Force too have rushed to the area. Two Army helicopters too were pressed into service, reports added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports also said that the Jammu and Kashmir Road Transport Corporation (J&amp;KSRTC) bus with registration number JK02V- 0594 was part of an Amarnath convoy and that most probably its driver lost control over it and it fell into the gorge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen Amarnath Pilgrims were killed and 27 others wounded when the bus they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a 150-feet deep gorge near Ramban area along the Srinagar-Jammu highway on Sunday. The Jammu &amp; Kashmir Police tweeted, \u201cRamban accident update. 16 dead; 19 injured being airlifted for treatment. 8 minor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[49546,49547,11817,49550,49549,6204,226,49545,49548,49551],"class_list":["post-98476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-16-amarnath-pilgrims-dead","tag-27-injured","tag-army","tag-banihal-sub-district-hospital","tag-disaster-management-force","tag-jammu-and-kashmir","tag-police","tag-ramban-accident","tag-road-transport-corporation","tag-srinagar-jammu-highway"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/kashmir-amarnath-pilgrims-759.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}