Dehradun Feb 22 PTI Fourteen people returning from a wedding including five women and two children died and two were injured when a vehicle fell into a deep gorge on the Sukhidhang-Dandaminar road in Uttarakhands Champawat district police said on TuesdayTheir bodies were recovered from the gorge after a nearly 11-hour-long rescue operation Champawat Superintendent of Police SP Devendra Pincha told PTI from the spotFive women a four-year-old girl and a teenaged boy are among the dead he said The deceased also include a mother-daughter duo the SP saidAll of them died on the spot as the gorge was deep and the car was badly damaged in the accident on Monday night he saidThe two injured are being treated at hospitals in Tanakpur and Champawat the SP saidThe authorities were informed about the accident around 3 am on Tuesday after which rescue teams were rushed to the spot an official at the Champawat district disaster management office saidThe vehicle was returning from a wedding in Tanakpur to Danda Kaknai village when the accident occurred he saidPrime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief at the loss of lives in the accident and announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from the Prime Ministers National Relief Fund for the next of kin of those killed and Rs 50000 for the injuredChief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami condoled the deaths in the accidentFive more lives were lost in separate accidents in Pauri and Tehri districts on Tuesday the police saidThree teachers were killed near Kotdwar when the vehicle in which they were travelling fell into a gorge while two people died when their car fell into a gorge near Gooler in Tehri district PTI ALM IJT

Dehradun Feb 22 PTI Fourteen people returning from a wedding were killed and two others injured when a vehicle fell into a deep gorge on the Sukhidhang-Dandaminar road in Uttarakhands Champawat district police said on Tuesday The accident occurred at around 10 pm on Monday but the information reached the authorities by around 3 am and rescue teams were rushed to the spot an official at the Champawat district disaster management office saidChampawat Superintendent of Police Devendra Pincha told PTI that 12 bodies have been recovered and efforts to pull out the remaining two from the deep and narrow gorge are underway The dead included five women and two children The injured are being treated at different hospitals in Tanakpur and Champawat the SP said adding the recovery of bodies is still underway at the site The pickup vehicle was returning from a wedding at a Dharamshala in Tanakpur to Danda Kaknai village when it met with the accident he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Minister National Relief Fund for the next of kin of those killed and 50000 for the injured Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has condoled the loss of lives in the accidentPTI ALM DV DV

Dehradun Feb 22 PTI Eleven people were killed and two injured when a vehicle fell into a deep gorge on the Sukhidhang-Dandaminar road in Uttarakhands Champawat district police said on Tuesday The accident occurred around 10 pmon Monday when the victims were returning from a wedding in Tanakpur to Danda Kaknai vllageHowever the information reached authorities only by around 3 am on Tuesday after which rescue teams were rushed to the spot an official at the Champawat district disaster management office saidFive bodies have been recovered and efforts to pull out the rest are underway Champawat Superintendent of Police Devendra Pincha said The injured have been rushed to a hospital in Champawat he saidPTI ALM DV DV