According to the Neelum police, the driver of the cargo truck of the Pakistan Army, which was travelling from Batrasi to Mandkaro, lost control of the vehicle and plunged into a deep gorge.
As soon as the information about the accident was received, armed forces and civil rescue teams reached the spot and initiated a rescue operation.
It was further reported that the bodies of the martyred soldiers were pulled from the river and shifted to a nearby hospital.
Last year, nine soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred and four injured when their truck plunged into a ravine in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), according to the military’s media wing.
The truck — part of a military convoy — was heading towards Mang Bajri in Bagh district when the incident occurred near Shujaabad, some 12km before its destination, at about 4 am on Aug 21, Reuters quoted military officials as saying.
Local police said that the truck fell 500 feet down the ravine.
A police official said the noise from the crash alerted nearby residents. He added that the residents rushed to the scene with cellular phones and lanterns to carry out rescue work.
