Jammu, Jan. 28 -- Four people, including a CRPF jawan, were killed when a bus hit a stationary load carrier and a motorcycle in Udhampur district, said officials on Tuesday.

The deceased have been identified as CRPF jawan Mukesh Prajapati of Madhya Pradesh, Rattan Lal, 28, of Batore, Sanjeev Kumar, 42, of Rehmati in Udhampur and Rayees Ahmed of Budgam.

The accident occurred near Jakhani-Chenani area on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway around 11 am.

The bus driver, in a bid to avert collision with a rashly driven motorcycle, rammed his bus into a stationary load carrier, said a police officer.

The bus was on its way to Jammu from Doda. "The bus first hit the motorbike and then crashed into the load carrier, which had developed some ...