A senior official of the Jammu and Kashmir administration and his son have been feared lifeless whereas his spouse died and daughter suffered accidents in a automobile crash on Mughal Road in Poonch district late on Sunday.

Surankote SHO, Rajveer Singh stated, “Director Finance Ranbir Singh Bali and his son Irvin Singh are missing while his wife Parvinder Kaur died and daughter Mahreen Kaur suffered injuries including fracture in a thigh after their car plunged into a deep gorge on Mughal Road.”

The officer knowledgeable that their Swift automobile (JK02BD-4635) plunged right into a deep gorge round 7.40 pm close to Pannar Bridge on Mughal Road.

“We recovered an Aadhar card from the site of crash from where we established the identity of the director finance, forest, ecology and environment department. Further, his daughter Mahreen Kour, who is being shifted to government medical college in Jammu, told us that the entire family was returning to Kashmir from their uncle’s home in Jammu,” said the SHO.

“We have recovered the body of Parvinder Kour but director Ranbir Singh Bali and his son Irvin Singh remain missing,” he added.

“We have launched searches but have not found them so far,” he added. In view of injury to the Jammu-Srinagar nationwide freeway in Ramban district attributable to heavy rains on Saturday, the administration has diverted the site visitors to Mughal Road until the restoration of the affected stretches.