6 students injured as wooden bridge collapses in AJK’s Samahni Town: police official

Six students were injured on Saturday when a wooden suspension bridge in Samahni tehsil of Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Bhimber District collapsed as they were trying to cross it, a police official said.

Samahni police muharrar (clerk) Altaf Hussain told Dawn.com that “seven girls fell 10-15 feet before landing in the water below” as the ropes of a wooden bridge snapped while they were trying to cross it.

Six of the seven students were immediately shifted to the Tehsil headquarters hospital in Samahni for medical assistance...