Tata Sumo collides with dumper truck kills four in JK's Budgam

Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district, a Tata Sumo crashes with a dumper truck around late night in the Palar area, leaving four souls gone forever and seven others battling for life in hospital. The nine passengers aboard the SUV had no inkling their simple drive would end in twisted wreckage turning a familiar road into a scene straight from a nightmare. Among the heartbreaking losses were 10-year-old chilld Zainab alongside her relatives 40-year-old Nisar Ahmad Rather, 36-year-old Bashir Ahmad Rather, and 60-year-old Khatoon, as rescuers worked feverishly under dim lights to free the trapped and broken.

As time advances over the debris-strewn highway today, emergency crews ferried the survivors to care: five critically injured—Zoona Bano, Shah, Gulshan, Tasaduq Hussain, and Raja—rushed to Srinagar's SMHS Hospital while Safiya and Jasbeer Singh, a Punjab-based crane conductor are under treatment at the district hospital in Budgam. JK Police swarmed the site and launched an investigation into the circumstances that led to the crash.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha poured out his pain on social media, reacting to the tragedy, LG Sinha said was deeply distressed by the loss of lives and offered condolences to the families, CM Omar Abdullah expressed shock and grief over the crash and directed officials to extend all possible assistance to the affected families.This gut-wrenching wreck piles onto J&K's mounting road woes, where winding paths and heavy haulers too often spell doom for everyday folks just trying to get home, sparking fresh cries for brighter lights, stricter checks, and kinder curves on these vital veins..