Kupwara, Apr 30: A 45-year-old Forest Protection Force employee died after a tractor he was on, ploughing farmland, turned turtle here in Karanu Gabra of Karnah on Friday evening. 

Reports said that one Abdul Shakoor son of Abdul Wahid Mir, a resident of Khawarpara sustained critical injuries on getting stuck below a tractor, after it turned turtle, while he was ploughing his fields in Karanu Gabra near Niti Top in Karnah.

He was immediately evacuated to hospital, however the middle-aged man succumbed to his grave injuries on way.

Meanwhile a police official confirming the incident said that a case is being taken up in this regard to corroborate the eyewitness’ account of the tragic accident.