Sunday, 26 November 2023 | PNS | NAINITAL
Five tourists from Uttar Pradesh died after their car fell about 200 metres down the mountainside in the remote Baghni area of Nainital district. The accident is believed to have taken place on Thursday. Sub divisional magistrate Pramod Kumar informed that the local villagers on Saturday informed the police about a car having fallen into the gorge. The State Disaster Response Force and district administration personnel who reached the site of the mishap retrieved the bodies of the victims from the gorge with the help of the local villagers. The five dead have been identified as Bilaspur, UP residents Sumit Singh, Ravi Pratap Singh and Jagrup Singh along with Gurusevak and Jassu- whose addresses were not known till the time of this report being filed. The family members of the deceased were informed by the police about the incident. Kumar said that the family members said that the five friends had left their homes saying that they were going from Bilaspur to Nainital. The family members had lost contact with them after that and were attempting to trace them.
Sources stated that the site where the accident occurred is far from the inhabited area due to which the villagers came to know about the mishap about two days after it occurred. Some villagers were going to another village on Saturday when they saw one person who appeared to be lying injured in the gorge. The villagers came to know about the accident when they went down into the gorge to check, after which they informed the district administration and the police.
Sources further state that the road at the site is in a bad condition and narrow which poses various problems to the locals while travelling. This is the reason why most of the locals prefer to use the bridle path instead of using the motor road. The villagers had repeatedly demanded of the Public Works Department and the district administration that the road should be repaired but the authorities have not taken necessary action so far.
