Six people including a child were killed and two injured when a vehicle plunged into a river on Nakyal Road in the Kotli sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Sunday, reported 24NewsHD TV channel. 

The car was coming from the Mohara Nara area to Kotli when the driver lost control and it fell down in the river. Six out of the eight people travelling in the car died on the spot. 

Police have shifted the injured persons to a Kotli hospital. Rescue 1122 personnel and local people quickly rushed to the accident’s site and retrieved the dead bodies. 

Reporter Zahid Bashir Chaudhry