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HYDERABAD/ DADU: Thirteen passengers were burnt alive and 18 others injured on Sunday when a bus struck a high-tension, electric cable in Dadu district.
The bus — crammed with wedding guests — burst into flames as soon as the iron boxes over its roof bumped into the cable, reportedly lying low against the road and hooked on wooden bamboos instead of pylons. The accident took place on the Indus Highway near Khairpur Nathan Shah taluka’s bypass road.
The groom and bride remained safe as they were travelling in a separate car.
The wedding party was returning from Dadu to Khairpur Nathan Shah after the nightlong wedding celebration.
“All my family members have been burnt to ashes,” sobbed an elderly man, Noor Hassan Babbur, at Dadu’s Civil hospital. Six women, three girls, two men, a boy and an infant are among the deceased.
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