In a tragic incident, four Indian Army officials died in a road accident on Thursday while commuting from Pedong in West Bengal to Zuluk along the Silk Route in Sikkim's Pakyong district. The deceased army jawans include driver Pradeep Patel from Madhya Pradesh, craftsman W. Peter from Manipur, Naik Gursev Singh from Haryana and Subedar K Thangapandi from Tamil Nadu.
As per the Indian Army, all the deceased army jawans, including the driver, belonged to a unit from Binaguri in West Bengal.
Three soldiers die in road accident in Arunachal
Earlier on August 28, three army personnel lost their lives while several others were injured after the truck they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's Upper Subansiri district, police said.
According to the police, the unfortunate accident happened around 6 am on Tuesday on the Trans Arunachal Highway near Tapi village, they said. As per army sources, deceased personnel were identified as Havildar Nakhat Singh, Naik Mukesh Kumar and Grenadier Ashish Kumar.
The Army truck involved in the accident was part of a convoy transporting personnel. The convoy was heading to Basar in Leparada district from Daporijo, the district headquarters town of Upper Subansiri, when the accident happened, a police officer said. Soon after the accident, locals rushed to the spot and helped in rescuing the injured personnel and retrieving the bodies of the deceased.
(With ANI Inputs)
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