4 Army men killed in Sikkim mishap

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GANGTOK: Four Army personnel were killed in a road accident in Sikkim’s Pakyong district on Thursday, the police said.

The vehicle, carrying Army’s EMC personnel stationed at Binnaguri, West Bengal, skidded off the road at Vertical Bhir along the Rhenock-Rongli highway and fell into a forest down below.

All four occupants of the vehicle died on the spot.

The deceased have been identified as Sepoy Pradip Patel from Madhya Pradesh, CFN W Peter, a resident of Imphal, Naik Gursev Singh, a resident of Haryana, and Subedar K Thangapandi, a resident of Tamil Nadu.

The police said the cause of the accident was yet to be ascertained.