One dead in road accident in Chamba

A person died in a road accident in Chamba after his car went off the road on Saturday night. The incident occurred near Mangla village and came to light when locals discovered the wrecked car 200 m below the road on Sunday morning and alerted the police.

The deceased was identified as Mahinder Kumar, a resident of Saru village in Chamba.

On receiving this information, a police team reached the scene, recovered the body from the car and sent it to Chamba Medical College. After postmortem, the body was handed over to the family.

In another accident in Hamirpur district, four people, including the driver, were injured.