At least 10 passengers were injured on Wednesday, October 21, after a passenger bus skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge at Gulli Gala in the Pachound area of Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said, according to ANI. The bus was travelling from Pachound to Ramnagar on the Basantgarh-Ramnagar road in Latti-Basantgarh tehsil when the driver lost control of the vehicle, officials said.

Udhampur Deputy Commissioner Ananth Dwivedi said emergency relief teams, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and medical personnel rushed to the spot to coordinate rescue and evacuation efforts. "At least 10 people sustained injuries when a passenger bus met with an accident at Gala Pachound in Udhampur district. No casualties have been reported so far, and administration officials remain actively engaged on the ground," Dwivedi said, according to ANI. Medical staff at Sub-District Hospital Ramnagar were placed on alert and arrangements were made there to treat the injured.

Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reported that local residents were among the first to respond and helped evacuate the passengers. Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, the Lok Sabha member from Kathua-Udhampur, said on X that he had spoken to DC Udhampur Ananth Dwivedi after receiving news of the accident, that all passengers were promptly evacuated with the timely intervention of local residents, and that nine to ten injured passengers were being shifted to Sub-District Hospital, Ramnagar. "No casualties have been reported so far," Singh said, adding that all necessary assistance was being provided and his office was in constant touch with the administration. Police have taken cognisance of the incident, and further details on the exact cause are awaited, the reports said. (Sources: ANI, via LatestLY and Devdiscourse, October 21, 2026; Kashmir News Observer (KNO), via The Kashmir Horizon, October 21, 2026; Nation Press, October 21, 2026)