Ladakh: 2 Dead, 10 Injured After Tipper Truck Topples, Rajnath Singh Expresses Grief

DN Bureau

"A tipper with 12 people had toppled yesterday in the Ladakh area while road construction work was on. Two people are fatalities while others were injured. The injured are being treated," said defence officials. Read more on Dynamite News:

2 dead, 10 injured after Tipper truck topples
2 dead, 10 injured after Tipper truck topples


Leh: As many as two people died and ten others were injured after a General Reserve Engineer Force (GREF) tipper truck toppled in the Sasoma-Saser La area of Ladakh on Wednesday while road construction work was underway, said defence officials on Thursday.

The injured are being treated at a hospital.

Also Read | "Nation will never forget supreme sacrifice of jawans": Army Chief on Kargil Vijay Divas

"A tipper with 12 people had toppled yesterday in the Ladakh area while road construction work was on. Two people are fatalities while others were injured. The injured are being treated," said defence officials.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed grief over the loss of lives in the tipper incident.

Also Read | Terrorism, lack of social-economic development reasons behind making Ladakh a UT: Rajnath Singh

"Extremely pained by the loss of precious lives due to toppling of a GREF Tipper in Sasoma-Saser La area of Ladakh. My thoughts are with the bereaved families. May the injured recover at the earliest," Singh said in a tweet. (ANI)










Related Stories