3 killed as truck falls into 500 feet deep gorge in Sikkim
Police said the driver, assistant and another person in the truck died.
Three people were killed after a truck skidded off the road and fell into a 500-feet deep gorge in East Sikkim. The police gave this information on Friday.
He said that the incident took place in Luing at around 6.30 pm on Thursday.
He said the driver lost control of the truck which was taking it from a mine in Ray-Sama to Gangtok and fell into the gorge.
Police said the driver, assistant and another person in the truck died.
The bodies have been sent to STNM Hospital near Gangtok for postmortem, he said.
An eight-year-old girl was killed and her father seriously injured when a vehicle fell into a 600-feet deep gorge at Lower Kambal on the Singtam-Dicchu highway in East Sikkim last Friday.
The specialty of the state of Sikkim is mountainous terrain. Almost the entire state is mountainous, with elevations ranging from 280 m (920 ft) in the south to 8,586 m (28,169 ft) in the northern peaks near the border of West Bengal with Nepal and Tibet.
The summit of Kangchenjunga, the world’s third highest peak, is the state’s highest point on the border of Sikkim and Nepal. [54] For the most part, the land is unsuitable for agriculture due to rocky, steep slopes. However, some hill slopes have been converted into terrace farms.
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