Twelve persons were killed and four others were injured today when the jeep they were travelling in skidded off the road and fell into a gorge near Sankri in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district.        

The vehicle slipped off the Mori-Jakholi road, which had become slippery after snowfall and fell into a deep gorge killing six persons on the spot, Purola sub-divisional magistrate Rajkumar Pandey said.     

Among the injured admitted at a nearby hospital, six of them succumbed to their injuries, Pandey said. The remaining injured are still undergoing treatment at the hospital, he said.