Dangerous route: Seven killed, five injured in accident

Four children and a woman among the deceased.

HYDERABAD: Seven people, including four children and a woman, were killed and five others were wounded in a road accident on the Indus Highway near Sehwan on Sunday. The incident occurred when a passenger bus, carrying passengers from Karachi’s Madina Colony, rammed into a parked dumper truck near the shrine of Lucky Shah Saddar, around 20 kilometers from Sehwan. Two-year-old Sabeen, five-year-old Arsalan, eight-year-old Afza, 10-year-old Kashan, 10-year-old Faizan, 28-year-old Afsheen and 45-year-old Muhammad Ameen died at Liaquat University Hospital, Jamshoro. Many accidents have taken place on this portion of the Indus Highway between Jamshoro and Sehwan in the past.The district administration of Jamshoro wrote to the provincial government in June, 2013, to enforce traffic regulations on this stretch of the highway and deploy motorway police. However, the government is yet to respond to the administration’s recommendations.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 14^th, 2014.