Local authorities and Levies personnel shifted the deceased and injured to the hospital. PHOTO: FILE
QUETTA:
At least seven persons including three Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed and several others injured in two related road accidents in Mastung and Mangochar areas of Balochistan on Thursday.
According to the police, a bus heading to Quetta from Karachi skidded off the road in Mastung while trying to save a boy who had suddenly bolted out of the fields.
Four people were killed and several others injured in the accident. Local authorities and Levies personnel shifted the deceased and injured to the hospital. However, the FC pickup, which was shifting injured persons to hospital overturned near Mangochar, killing three men of the paramilitary force. The civilian driver was critically injured in the accident caused by a tyre burst, FC spokesman said.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 19th, 2016.
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