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14 dead in
accident
SUKKUR—A passenger coach collided with a trailer near Shahwali area of
Rajanpur district some 25 Kilomerter away from Kashmore-Kandhkot
district, leaving a woman a child besdies 12 others dead and leaving 20
wounded.
Kashmore Police told on Sunday that the passenger coach heading from
Peshawar to Karachi, while overtaking a truck on Indus Highway near
Shahwali clashed head-on with a trailer coming from the opposite
direction, which resulted in the death of 12 persons including a woman
and a child, while 20 persons were wounded.
Police and Rangers have shifted the bodies and the injured to Kashmore
Taluka Hospital, while ten of them being in critical condition were
later sent to Larkana and Rahimyar Khan.
Rahmatullah, Iqbal Hussain, Wakil Khan, Allah Dita, Gulzar Khan, Abu
Bakar Khan, Rahmatullah Khan, Azim Hussain, Dilbar Khan, Rahima Khatoon,
Azhar, 6 and Shaukat Khan were included among the dead, while one body
could not yet be identified.
Kashmore District Nazim Sardar Saleem Jan Mazari, declaring emergency in
the Kashmore Taluka Hospital, has cancelled the leaves of the hospital
staff.—Agencies |