New Delhi: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday expressed sorrow at the death of security personnel in a bus accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam area and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.
Six ITBP personnel and a policeman died while 32 others, returning from Amarnath Yatra duty, suffered injuries on Tuesday when the bus fell into a deep gorge in Pahalgam.
“Saddened by the loss of lives of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel in a bus accident … My thoughts are with the bereaved families in this hour of grief. My prayers for the speedy recovery of the injured,” the Vice President’s Secretariat tweeted, quoting Dhankhar.
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