10 killed, 35 injured as bus overturns on Rajanpur's Indus Highway

Bus was travelling from Karachi to Dera Ghazi Khan, overturned after hitting a divider on an under-construction road

MULTAN:

At least 10 passengers were killed and 35 injured on Wednesday when a passenger bus travelling from Karachi to Dera Ghazi Khan overturned after hitting a divider on an under-construction road near Bangla Hidayat on the Indus Highway in Rajanpur, Rescue 1122 said.

Women and children were among the dead and injured, according to rescue officials. Rescue teams reached the site after receiving information about the accident and shifted the injured to hospitals for treatment.

Rescue officials said 20 injured passengers were taken to Rajanpur District Headquarters Hospital, while 12 people with minor injuries were provided medical assistance at the scene.

Seven of the injured were initially reported to be in critical condition. Five were referred to a hospital in Dera Ghazi Khan and two to a hospital in Rahim Yar Khan for further treatment.

The deceased and injured belonged to Dera Ghazi Khan, Taunsa and Balochistan, rescue officials said.

The death toll rose to 10 after a woman and a child succumbed to their injuries, according to successive updates from Rescue 1122. The deceased included at least seven men and two women.

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October has seen a series of fatal road accidents across the country, including several involving passenger vehicles and heavy transport. On October 19, five young men were killed when a speeding car overturned and caught fire on Bosan Road in Multan. The car reportedly went out of control near Sabzazar Metro Station, hit a road divider, overturned, and crashed into a wall.

In a separate accident reported the same day, four people, including women and children, were killed when a Mazda truck collided with an Alto car near Darbi in Balochistan’s Bolan district.

Earlier, on October 16, eight people were killed and eight injured in two separate accidents in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Six people died when a passenger van overturned in Buner, while two children were killed after being run over by a truck near Tarnab Road in Charsadda.

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The same day, three members of a family, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed when a 22-wheeler trailer carrying cement crushed their car at a traffic signal on Allama Iqbal Road in Lahore’s Garhi Shahu area. The impact trapped the occupants inside the wreckage. While witnesses blamed brake failure, the first information report alleged that the trailer driver had been driving recklessly.

On October 13, four people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured when a van travelling from Quetta to Kalat collided with a truck on the Quetta-Karachi National Highway near Badrang in Mastung district. Police said the deceased and injured belonged to Kalat district.