Srinagar: A 22-year-old scooty rider died in a road accident in Guroora village of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday morning.

Srinagar based news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) quoted officials as saying that a vehicle hit the scooty in Guroora, resulting in critical injuries to the rider.

He was immediately shifted to district hospital Bandipora where he succumbed to injuries, he said.

The dead have been identified as Mehraj Ud din son of Javid Ahmad of Chitteybandy.