JAMMU: At least four tourists from Bihar were killed and eight injured on Thursday when a mini bus in which they were travelling skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir.

The accident occurred near Sherbibi on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, about 170 km north of Jammu.

Police said all four bodies had been recovered and the injured had been taken to hospital in Banihal. All the dead were from Patna.