India, July 12 -- Five people were killed and one person was injured on Friday evening when their vehicle veered off the road and plunged into a gorge at Ukhral Pogal Paristan in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, police said.

"The Tata Sumo fell into a 600-foot-deep gorge near Madina Masjid hill on the Senabati link road in the Paristan area of Ukhral around 8 pm on Friday," a police officer said.

Four people - Mohammad Rafiq Gujjar, Tauqeer Ahmed Bhat, Abdul Latief Gujjar, Aijaz Ahmed Bhat, and Shakeel Ahmad - died on the spot. Two injured passengers were taken to GMC Anantnag.

"One of them was later shifted to SKIMS at Soura in Srinagar, where he died while receiving treatment," the officer added.

The district administration has ...