SWABI, Aug 18: Ten passengers, including two women, were killed and 11 others injured in a head-on collision between a flying coach and a truck here on Monday.
The ill-fated flying coach (SB-3134) was going from Peshawar to Swabi, when it collided the truck near Sheikh Dheri bus stop, killing 10 passengers.
Eyewitnesses said that the accident was so severe that the sound of the crash was heard in the nearby areas. Limbs of some victims were scattered on the road. The identification of some passengers was quite difficult.
Local shopkeepers said that the accident had occurred due to overspeeding by the flying coach driver.
Before the arrival of police and other rescue workers, local volunteers had taken the injured to the DHQ Hospital Swabi and Kunda civil hospital.
Critically injured passengers were shifted to Lady Reading and Khyber Teaching hospitals in Peshawar.
SP Saeed Khan and district Nazim Sher Zaman Sher reached the spot and supervised the rescue operation.
The dead were identified as Kamran, Ahmadeen (truck driver), Khaista Khan, Jehanzeb Khan, Saleem Khan, Mohammad Afzal, Amin, an Afghan Roidad Gul, Dilfaroz, Mohammad Nabi (flying coach driver), and Mohammad Rauf. The names of the women victims could not be ascertained.
