The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday quashed as fake news claims that a “disruptive illegal organisation” was responsible for a road accident near the Dangduru power project site in the Kishtwar district that claimed the lives of seven people, as reported by the news agency PTI. Senior Superintendent of Police (Kishtwar) Khalil Poswal asserted that it was a road accident, caused after the driver of the vehicle lost control at a sharp curve and it rolled down a hill.
The People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF) claimed on social media that it was behind the accident. “A fake news circulating on social media by a disruptive illegal organisation claiming responsibility of (the) accident of a vehicle at Dangduru today is baseless and unfounded,” Poswal said, as quoted by PTI. “The statement of (the) PAFF is refuted and the general public is requested not to pay heed to any of the rumour spread by such disruptive organisations,” he added.
Anyone found involved in spreading the fake news will be strictly dealt with, he said. The accident occurred near the Dangduru power project site in the remote Dacchan area around 8.35 am, the police said.
Seven people were killed and two critically in the accident. All the victims were workers at the power project site. The injured were rushed to a hospital by rescuers and local residents. the police said.
In another incident, at least four people were killed while another was seriously injured after a car they were travelling in rammed into a roadside tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura on Wednesday, the police said, as reported by the news agency ANI. According to the police, the victims were travelling in a car which reportedly collided with a tree at Baldeo Road area in Mathura. There were five people on board when the incident took place, they said.
They were identified as Ankit, Yogesh – both residents of Rida Mohalla of Baldeo, Achal and Akash from Anghai village, and Bharat alias Rocky.
“Prima facie it appeared that the vehicle driver tried to avoid an oncoming motorist and ended up colliding with the tree near Pilkhuni village,” officials said, while adding that four of them died on the spot, as quoted by ANI. Officials were however not sure about who was driving the vehicle.