Highway tragedy: Four burnt alive, 20 injured in accident
According to Edhi officials, the dead and the injured were being shifted to civil hospital Shikarpur
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SUKKUR:
Four passengers of a coach were burnt alive and 20 were injured, when a Karachi bound passenger coach caught fire after colliding into a truck at the National Highway near Shikarpur bypass between of Thursday and Friday. It was reported that when the coach reached the Shikarpur bypass, the driver lost control of the bus and banged into a truck. As a result both the vehicles caught fire. The passengers of the coach including the driver of the coach were burnt alive, while 20 others including women and children received burn injuries. According to Edhi officials, the dead and the injured were being shifted to civil hospital Shikarpur.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2016.
Four passengers of a coach were burnt alive and 20 were injured, when a Karachi bound passenger coach caught fire after colliding into a truck at the National Highway near Shikarpur bypass between of Thursday and Friday. It was reported that when the coach reached the Shikarpur bypass, the driver lost control of the bus and banged into a truck. As a result both the vehicles caught fire. The passengers of the coach including the driver of the coach were burnt alive, while 20 others including women and children received burn injuries. According to Edhi officials, the dead and the injured were being shifted to civil hospital Shikarpur.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2016.