New Delhi: At least 16 Hindu pilgrims were killed and 16 others injured when a truck carrying them fell into a gorge in Indian administered Kashmir.
According to police, the worshippers were returning from Amarnath cave, the site of an annual pilgrimage, when the incident happened in Samba district late on Thursday.
Hindus revere Amarnath as the abode of the god Shiva.
This is the second major incident involving pilgrims returning from the Amarnath cave this month.
On 14 July, 15 pilgrims were killed when a passenger bus returning from the pilgrimage plunged into a gorge near Ramban on a mountain road.
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