Nine people, including two teenagers, were killed and several others injured in different road accidents and other incidents across Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Five persons, including 32-year-old Mohammad Idrees and his nine-month-old daughter Hamza, died and six others were injured after a Sumo vehicle skidded off the Teetwal–Simari road and fell into a ditch in the Karnah area of Kupwara district on Monday.

The accident occurred in the Simari area, after which the injured were taken to Sub-District Hospital Tangdhar for treatment and subsequently referred to Government Medical College (GMC) Handwara. A 12-year-old boy identified as Ayan Ashraf, son of Mohammad Ashraf Mir of Zonrashi Chowkibal, was killed after being attacked by a leopard in the Marsary area of Kupwara district, while a fireman of the Fire and Emergency Services Department, identified as Mohammad Amin Khan, died after accidentally falling from the third floor of a fire station building in the Sogam area of the same district, officials said.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)