Tourist, horse he was riding killed in freak accident in Pahalgam

In a freak accident, a tourist and the horse he was riding died after a pine tree fell on them in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam hill station on Monday, police said.

Sanjay Dinker Shivdekar, 65, from Maharashtra was riding a horse from Baisaran towards Pahalgam when the tree fell on them, killing both on the spot, a police official said. “The body of the tourist has been kept at the mortuary in Pahalgam health centre,” the official added.