FAISALABAD, Aug 9: Eleven passengers, including four women, were killed while 13 others sustained injuries, three of them serious, when two buses collided head-on near Sadhar village, about 14kms from here on Faisalabad-Jhang Road on Saturday night.

Reports reaching here said a Sadiqabad-bound bus (FDP-2187) crashed into another bus (FDV-2788) at high speed. Six passengers, including two women, died on their way to hospital due to excessive bleeding while five others expired in hospital.

The area people hastened to the spot and recovered the injured from the wreckages of the buses. The injured were shifted to Allied Hospital where the condition of three of them was stated to be critical.

Two of the dead were identified as Pitras of Chak 35, Mian Chunnun, and Ghulam Murtaza of Toba Tek Singh while the identity of others could not be established till the filing of this report.

Those injured include, Ibrahim (25), Shahid (40), Mohammad Haleem (38), Mohammad Jawed (38) (Khanewal), Jameela Bibi (35), Shakeela Bibi (22), Kanwal (29), Fayyaz (22) and Shafique (36).

An injured, Mohammad Haleem, told Dawn that the accident occurred when the driver of Sadiqabad-bound bus tried to overtake a mini-truck.