17 killed in fatal road crash
At least 17 people, among them two women and four children, were killed and seven wounded in an accident in Karak district.
At least 17 people, among them two women and four children, were killed and seven wounded in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a trailer on the Indus Highway in Karak district on Monday, police and medics said.
The deadly accident took place near the Niazai Stop area in Karak district on the Indus Highway, which connects Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with Sindh, a police official told The Express Tribune by the telephone from Karak.
The official said that the passenger coach bearing registration number BN-640 bumped into the trailer coming from the opposite direction. As a result 17 passengers were killed and seven wounded some of them critically, he added. The passenger coach was turned into a heap of mangled metal and rescuers had to cut into it to get to the casualties.
Dr Lal Sharaf, the medical superintendent of the District Headquarters Hospital Karak, told journalists that they received 13 dead bodies, while another four were shifted to the Civil Hospital.
He also confirmed that seven people were wounded. Three of them were shifted to Peshawar for treatment of their critical wounds. Most of the dead belong to Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts.
Police reached the spot an hour after the accident and volunteers completed relief activities on their own, local residents complained.
Volunteers had to collect donations to purchase fuel for the ambulance of the DHQ hospital and shift patients to Peshawar, a local said. Dr Lal Sharaf also confirmed to journalists that they did not have funds to keep their ambulance up and running.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2010.
The deadly accident took place near the Niazai Stop area in Karak district on the Indus Highway, which connects Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with Sindh, a police official told The Express Tribune by the telephone from Karak.
The official said that the passenger coach bearing registration number BN-640 bumped into the trailer coming from the opposite direction. As a result 17 passengers were killed and seven wounded some of them critically, he added. The passenger coach was turned into a heap of mangled metal and rescuers had to cut into it to get to the casualties.
Dr Lal Sharaf, the medical superintendent of the District Headquarters Hospital Karak, told journalists that they received 13 dead bodies, while another four were shifted to the Civil Hospital.
He also confirmed that seven people were wounded. Three of them were shifted to Peshawar for treatment of their critical wounds. Most of the dead belong to Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts.
Police reached the spot an hour after the accident and volunteers completed relief activities on their own, local residents complained.
Volunteers had to collect donations to purchase fuel for the ambulance of the DHQ hospital and shift patients to Peshawar, a local said. Dr Lal Sharaf also confirmed to journalists that they did not have funds to keep their ambulance up and running.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2010.