Srinagar, April 20

The wife of a Colonel was killed and an Assistant Commandant of the CRPF was injured in a road accident in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district this morning.The police said the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road at Tapper on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway and collided with a tree around 7.30 am today.They said Wandhana Rathu, 35, wife of Colonel Sourab Rathu, Commanding Officer of the 21 Rajputana Rifles, died instantly. She was a resident of Dwarka in Delhi. Assistant Commandant of the CRPF Manish Kumar was seriously injured.“The three-year-old child of the Army officer miraculously escaped unhurt in the accident,” said a police officer in north Kashmir. The police said the driver of the vehicle had been arrested. The vehicle had left Chowkibal in frontier Kupwara district this morning and was on its way to Srinagar when it met with the accident. — TNS