Accident claims four lives

HYDERABAD: An ambulance carrying a dead body met an accident on the Indus Highway, leaving four persons, including a woman and two children, dead on Saturday night near Manjhand town in Jamshoro.

Five people were also injured in the accident. According to the police, a truck fell on the ambulance while overtaking it. Another car coming from the opposite direction also hit the two vehicles.

The ambulance’s driver, Mohammad Asif, six-year-old Anisa, three-year-old Muhammad Ahmed and a woman, who has yet to be identified, were among the deceased. Adnan Ahmed, an injured person, said the ambulance was carrying the dead body of Muhammad Hussain from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, to Bahawalpur in Punjab. According to him, there were eight people in the ambulance.

The late night rescue operation took around three hours before the injured could be pulled out from the ambulance that had been crushed under the truck. The injured, Saima, Naseema, Wajid Hussain and Adnan, were earlier taken to Liaquat University Hospital in Jamshoro but were later shifted to Civil Hospital, Hyderabad.

The two-way Indus Highway’s 136-kilometre stretch between Jamshoro and Sehwan towns, with its several sharp curves, witnesses frequent accidents.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 20^th, 2016.