4 tourists from state killed in J&K mishap

SRINAGAR: Four tourists from Maharashtra were killed and five others wounded in a road accident at Bijbehara on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway today, police said.

Police said a vehicle carrying tourists from Srinagar to Jammu collided with a speedy bus at Bijbehara in south Kashmir district of Anantnag.

Four tourists died on the spot and five others were wounded. The injured were admitted to hospital where the condition of two of them was stated to be critical, police said.