July 27, 2002	Saturday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 16,1423

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QUETTA, July 26: Eight people were killed and 12 others injured, four of them seriously, when a Pishin-bound minibus plunged from a 700-ft high Khojak Pass into a ditch after colliding with a taxi, some 100km north-west of here, on Friday.

The minibus, carrying 20 passengers, was on its way to Pishin from the border town Chaman. As it reached the top of the Khojak Pass at the Quetta-Chaman National Highway, it collided with a taxi coming from Quetta.

The minibus driver could not control the vehicle due to over-speeding and it fell down in a ditch.