Two soldiers were killed on Saturday after an army ambulance veered off the road and plunged into a deep gorge along the Line of Control in the Keri sector of Rajouri district.
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The deceased were identified as Sepoy Paramvir Sharma of Sangpur village in Rajouri and Havildar Sudhir Kumar of Ramnagar Kunjan village in Bihar.
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“The army ambulance met an accident near Dungi Gala near the LoC when its driver lost control while negotiating curve around 11.30 am,” said a defence official.
The official said that the ill-fated ambulance had only a driver and another soldier at the time of the accident.
Their bodies were retrieved from the gorge by rescuers, the official added.
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