4 dead and five injured in a tragic accident at Lamayuru Leh: July 3, 2013 In a tragic accident that took place yesterday evening on Lamayuru road claimed 4 lives and 5 injured. All the eight passengers were local students coming from Jammu for their summer holidays and the vehicle was a local driver driving taxi (Qualis). Three students were reported dead on spot and 1 expired on way to hospital and among the injured including the driver, one of the student is reported critical with multiple fractures who will be taken through State Aircraft to Srinagar for further treatment. The CEC LAHDC, Rigzin Spalbar expressed deep condolence on the unprecedented death of the young students which is not only a severe setback to their families but to the district as these students were the coming future of Ladakh. In this time of grief, CEC expressed sympathy with the deceased families and announced an ex-gratia of Rs.10000 each to the deceased families from CEC relief fund. CEC today also made a visit to SNM Hospital to meet the injured ones where he took a detail report about their treatment and medical status from Medical Suptd. SNM and the concern surgeons. He also had a brief interaction with the injured patients and shared words of motivation to encourage them to keep a strong will and positive attitude for their speedy recovery. The CEC directed the DC, Simrandeep Singh to get the maximum fund to the dead and injured person through Red Cross immediately. Keeping in view the increasing rate of road accidents in the district, Spalbar directed DC, SP, DSPs, Traffic police authority and the concern govt. deptt to maintain stringent steps in issuing driving license as per rule and to keep a strict vigil in implementing road safety measures and traffic regulations to avoid such incidents. EC Health Dr. Sonam Wangchuk went to the Khaltsi Health Centre today where the dead bodies of the dead ones are kept to handover the bodies to their family members.---ladakh news service
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:54:56 +0000
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