"Yesterday, late evening, a car rolled off a gorge at Humbal on Doda Marmat road. Three people died and 5 were injured in the accident," DDC Doda Vishesh Paul Mahajan said.
Four people died on the spot after an explosion occurred in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu during the manufacturing of country-made explosives (firecrackers), police said on Wednesday.
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Coimbatore Zone, Saravana Sundar, while speaking to ANI, said, "Around eight people died, while a few were seriously injured in the accident. Further investigation is underway."
Over 2,500 people died or gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, reported Al Jazeera citing the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Congress General Secreatry Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday met one of the family members who lost seven members of her family on August 14 in the Shiv temple collapse in Shimla where 20 people died due to a landslide.
In a near rerun of the horrific events of April this year, two people died and another three lost their eyesight in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district after allegedly consuming spurious liquor on Sunday, officials said.
As many as four people died and five more were said to be critical after a lift of an under-construction building came crashing down to the ground in Greater Noida, officials said on Friday.