Ten soldiers were killed and 10 others injured when a bullet-proof army vehicle skidded off a mountain road and plunged into a 200-foot-deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on Thursday.

Axar.az informs, citing Hindustan Times, the accident took place at Khanni Top on the Bhaderwah-Chamba interstate road around 10am. The vehicle, carrying 20 personnel, was on a routine patrol from an army camp in Bhaderwah toward a high-altitude post.

Police said the vehicle was barely a kilometre short of its destination when the driver lost control on a sharp bend.

A joint rescue operation by the army and police was launched immediately. While 10 soldiers died on the spot, the 10 injured were evacuated to Command Hospital, Udhampur.