Road accidents: Three killed, 23 injured

SWABI/ HANGU/ CHARSADDA: Three people were killed, including a woman and child, when a passenger van collided with a truck near the interchange in Swabi. In another incident, eight people were wounded when a speeding passenger van collided with a pick-up near Kacha Bandha of Hangu. Two women and a child were among the injured. In a third accident, seven people were injured near Jindi Bridge on Charsadda Road when a speeding vehicle overturned and fell in a pit. Parang police SHO Adnan said that locals and police personnel pulled the injured from the destroyed vehicle and took them to Lady Reading Hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 30^th, 2012.