Vehicle drowns in Chenab, 8 missing At least eight persons are feared drowned after a passenger taxi plunged into river Chenab on Monday in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Police here said that a tempo traveller on way to Ramban from Udhampur skidded off the road and plunged into Chenab river near Ramban.
They said that around eight or nine persons went missing after the mishap, adding, “a rescue operation was immediately launched by the police and volunteers of Quick Reaction Team, but so far there has been no clue of the ill-fated vehicle.”
Police said that one passenger was rescued in an injured condition identified as Mehraj-ud-Din, a resident of Chandergam Awantipora in south Kashmir.
