Overview

• An ambulance rolled into a roughly 400-foot gorge near Manguwal on the Hoshiarpur–Dharamshala (Chintpurni) road in the early hours of Saturday.
• The deceased were identified as patient Onkar Chand and his sons-in-law Rakesh Kapoor and Sanjiv, all from Kangra district.
• Renu Kapoor and the ambulance driver were rescued by local residents and police, then shifted from Hoshiarpur’s civil hospital to a private facility.
• Police reported the driver lost control on a sharp turn where the road berm had caved in after rains, with bodies sent for postmortem and an investigation underway.
• Officials note the Manguwal barrier stretch is accident-prone, and SDMA data show severe monsoon conditions with landslides and elevated road deaths across the region.