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11 killed, 25 injured as minibus falls into gorge in J-K’s Poonch

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Eleven people were killed and about 25 others injured after a minibus they were travelling in slipped into a gorge at Sawjian Nallah in Jammu-Kashmir’s Poonch district on Wednesday.Army rescue teams have launched a rescue operation.

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