Five persons, including a woman, have been killed, and 17 people are reportedly injured when an overloaded passenger vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge. The incident happened around the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said.

As reported by news agency PTI, the accident took place on Doda-Bharth road near Ponda, which is around 30 km from Doda town. It has been reported that the driver of the tempo traveller lost control while negotiating a blind curve around 9 am.

Soon after the incident at Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, Mohammad Ashraf (35), Mangta Wani (51), Atta Mohamed (33), Talib Hussain (35), and Rafeeqa Begum (60) were brought to the Government Medical College Hospital, Doda, where they were declared dead.