At least 20 people were killed and 34 others wounded in two different road accidents in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Sunday, police said here.
Eleven people were killed on the spot and nine injured, one of them critically, when a Rawalpindi-bound Toyota coming from Bagh fell into Nullah Mahal near Arja Bridge between Bagh and Rawalakot, police added.
Those killed were identified as Ashfaq, Khizar Hayat, Saifullah, Daftar Hussain, Muhammed Shafat, Ummar Hayat, Saud Hussain, Shakeel, Khalid Mehmood, Tahir Hussain and Basharat Ahmed, The driver of the ill-fated van was evacuated to hospital in serious condition.
All the injured have been admitted in Combined Military Hospital Bagh and a hospital in Arja.
In another road accident, nine people were killed and 25 injured when a coaster coming from Patika town to Muzaffarabad fell into river Neelum while negotiating a curve near Chhal Pani, some eight km from Muzaffarabad on Neelum Valley Road. Three people including driver of the bus were killed on the spot, while six persons succumbed to their injuries in hospital.
Twelve wounded passengers were admitted in Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences, six seriously wounded in American Military Surgical Hospital and four in Al-Dawah Hospital. The names of those killed could not be ascertained.