A special police officer was killed and his colleague injured on Sunday when a private car they were travelling in plunged into a deep gorge in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
Special police officers Mushtaq Ahmad and Sajjad Hussainwere on the way to Kishtwar town from their Tatani Saroor village when thevehicle skidded off the road and rolled down a 200-feet gorge at Fogumarhvillage, a police official said.They were evacuated and admitted to the Kishtwardistrict hospital where Ahmad succumbed to the injuries, the official said. Thecondition of Hussain is stated to be serious, he said.