Three dead, 14 injured as passenger coach overturns

An accident of a passenger coach on the National Highway in Sukkur district claimed three lives and left 14 injured on Friday. The police said the coach was going to Peshawar from Karachi when it overturned and fell into a roadside ditch near Hingoro in Pannu Aqil because the carelessness of the driver.

The police informed that the dead and the injured were shifted to taluka hospital in Pannu Aqil from where six critically injured were referred to a hospital in Sukkur. The deceased were identified as Karachi's resident Tariq Ali, Pasheen's resident Hikmatullah Khan and Taxila's Shahid Ali.

The bodies of Ali and Hikmatullah Khan were handed over to their families while Shahid's body was kept in the hospital's mortuary.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 6^th, 2024.