Five die in head-on collision

BHAKKAR—Five persons were killed and 20 injured in a head-on collision between a bus and an oil tanker, 40 km from here on Thursday, police sources said. The bus carrying barat was returning back from Issa Khel to Layya when it collided with an oil tanker at Mianwali-Muzaffargarh Road. Three persons died on the spot whereas more than 20 people were injured, many of them are in critical condition. The number of casualties reached to five when two of the passengers died in the hospital.—Agencies