Six dead, two injured as passenger vans falls into gorge in Abbottabad

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ABBOTTABAD: At least six people were killed and two others injured when a passenger van skidded off road fell into a deep gorge here on Wednesday.

Police said that an Abbottabad bound passenger van coming from Namli Maira went out of control of driver and plunged into a ravine by roadside in Bagnotar area of Galiyat, district Abbottabad.

Six passengers died in the accident and two others were injured.

Police and local people reached the scene of the mishap, pulled out the bodies and injured from the gorge and shifted them to hospital in Abbottabad.