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Four passengers were killed and 16 others, including women, sustained serious injuries in a road accident near Chilas in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday morning, the state-run PTV reported.
According to Rescue 1122, the bus en route to Skardu from Rawalpindi, collided with another vehicle coming from the opposite direction. As a result, four passengers died on the spot, the PTV News reported.
Following the collision, both vehicles plunged into a ravine, the report added. The police and rescue officials rushed to the site and shifted the injured and the bodies to the Regional Hospital in Chilas.
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