Disasters · Udhampur bus plungeUdhampur bus accident: At least two reported dead after gorge plungeAired October 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM UTCWritten October 21, 2026 at 9:09 AM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07Local residents pulled passengers from a bus that plunged into a gorge.0:11At least two people are reported dead, and one injury count includes eight people in0:15critical condition.0:16Passengers have been evacuated, but the urgent question is how the most seriously0:20injured are doing now.0:21The bus was traveling from Pachound toward Ramnagar in Jammu and Kashmir.0:25It left the Bazantgar-Ramnagarh Road at Guligala in the Pachound area of Udhampur0:30district.0:30Injured passengers were taken to hospitals in Bazantgarh and Ramnagar.0:34Residents began getting people out before emergency teams arrived.0:37Responders and senior officials, including a sub-divisional magistrate, then reached0:41the scene.0:42The bus was badly mangled after the fall.0:44The crash happened on Wednesday morning, October 21st, at roughly 8 to 8:30 local0:50time.0:51Pachound and Pachound are spelling variants used for the route and surrounding area.0:55The reports describe the same crash.0:57Two deaths and 15 injuries are the fullest reported toll, but the figures still1:02differ.1:03The final number of people killed and injured hasn't been confirmed.1:06The differences affect both the death count and how many survivors need care.1:10The reported toll includes two dead and 15 injured.1:14Other counts give 14 injuries, or 1 girl dead and 16 injured.1:18Another count lists 17 injured, including 8 critically.1:22Those figures describe the same passengers and can't be added together.1:25Early updates described at least 10 injured and no deaths reported at that point.1:29Nobody has explained whether the different death counts reflect a later death or1:33corrected information.1:34A girl among those reported killed was reportedly four years old.1:38Her age hasn't been confirmed.1:40The bus reportedly skidded while negotiating a sharp turn, then fell into the gorge.1:44Some descriptions put the fall at about 100 feet.1:47Nobody has explained why the bus left the road.1:49Evacuation has shifted the immediate emergency toward hospital treatment.1:53One group of six seriously injured passengers was reportedly taken to Ramnagar while1:58others received care at Besangar.2:00That transfer count describes a different medical update from the figure of eight.2:04critically injured.2:04Union Minister and Uttampur MP Jitendra Singh spoke with Deputy Commissioner Ananth2:09Dwivedi and sought assistance for the injured.2:12Singh said local residents helped evacuate all passengers.2:15He also urged officials to ensure appropriate treatment.2:17Singh initially said there were no casualties.2:20His later update replaced that assurance with the words, two casualties have been2:24reported.2:25He also gave a more detailed picture of patients reaching Ramnagar and being sent2:28onward for care.2:30Singh said 10 injured people had reached the sub-district hospital in Ramnagar.2:34Three of those 10 were on their way to government medical college Udhampur.2:38He said three more ambulances were approaching Ramnagar without giving their patient2:41numbers.2:4210 hospital arrivals tell us where patients were receiving care at that moment.2:46More injured passengers were being treated elsewhere.2:49Singh also raised construction of the Ramnagar-Besengarh Road with border roads2:53organization authorities in New Delhi.2:55He hasn't announced a construction timetable.2:57Singh says passengers have been removed from the bus, but the medical outcome is3:01still unresolved.3:03Nobody has given a subsequent hospital update on the eight reported critically3:07injured or confirmed the condition of the three patients being transferred to3:10Udhampur.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗