STATE TIMES NEWS
KATHUA: Four people, including two minor girls, were killed in two separate accidents in Kathua, police said on Monday.
Surjeet Kumar (40) and his daughter Sonali (11) of Shab-e-Check village of Rajbagh were killed when their motorcycle was hit by a truck at Lakhanpur on the Jammu-Pathankot national highway around 12.45 pm, a police official said.
They were returning to their village from Pathankot when their motorcycle was hit by the Jammu-bound truck, the official said.
In another accident, a woman and her granddaughter were killed when they were hit by an unknown motorcycle near Sadq-e-Check on the highway on Sunday evening, the official said.
While seven-year-old Sameera died on the spot, her grandmother Santosh (50) succumbed to injuries at a hospital, he said.
In Udhampur, Meanwhile, a woman was killed and seven others injured when two private cars collided at Garnai near Tikri along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Sunday, the official said.
The condition of two of the injured persons was stated to be serious, the official said.
