Woman killed in road mishap

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 6: A woman was killed today in a road mishap in village Kote area of city outskirts.
According to a police official, a speeding Maruti car being driven by an unknown youth of village upper Kote this morning hit a woman namely Kanta Devi (55) wife of Jeet Raj, resident of Kote, when she was returning back home from the fields after attending nature’s call.
“In the mishap, the woman received serious injuries and was immediately rushed to Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu, where she was declared as brought dead by the doctors”, he said, adding, after conducting postmortem, the body of the deceased was handed over to her legal heirs for last rites.
In this connection, Gharota police has registered a case and started investigations.