Srinagar: Three persons, including an infant girl, were killed and seven others injured in a landslide on the Doda-Kishtwar highway on Monday when they were crossing on foot a stretch washed away earlier by a rockslide in Jammu and Kashmir.


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Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Kishtwar district Sandeep Wanzir told PTI that the fresh landslide took place around 11 am when a group of people was crossing on foot the highway stretch in Drabshalla area.


Two people died on the spot and the one-month-old child died at the hospital.


Seven others were injured in the incident and were being treated, the SSP said.


After a landslide had last week washed away a portion of the road, transport services were severely hit and vehicles were plying on either side of the stretch forcing people to cross the affected part on foot.