Accident: One killed, eight injured in collision
Rescue workers and locals rushed to the scene and shifted the injured to District Headquarters Hospital
October 06, 2016
HARIPUR:
At least one passenger was killed while eight others sustained injuries when a bus collided head-on with a van near Ali Khan on GT road on Wednesday. According to Sera-e-Saleh police and eyewitnesses present at the site of the accident, when an Abbottabad-bound passenger van on GT Road was close to Ali Khan, it collided head-on with another passenger bus heading in the opposite direction to Rawalpindi, injuring nine passengers from the van. Rescue workers and locals rushed to the scene and shifted the injured to District Headquarters Hospital where one of the injured, later identified as Zafran Muhammad Irfan of Chitri Rehana village, succumbed to his injuries. The injured were identified as Ghulam Rasool, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Fiaz, Shamsuz Zia, Jameel Akhtar, Mushtaq Ahmad, Abid and Kala Khan.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 6th, 2016.
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