December 18, 2003	Thursday	Shawwal 23, 1424

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SUKKUR, Dec 17: Twelve members of a family were killed while 30 others injured when a passenger wagon collided head-on with a trailer on the National Highway in Dadloi near Pano Aqil taluka on Wednesday.

A car coming from behind also dashed into the trailer.

Abdul Shakoor, Qurban Ali, Irfan, Rashid, Shaukat Ali, Karim Bux, Sobho, Arshad Ali, Waheeda and Kamran died on the spot while Shahzad Ali Awan and the 24-year-old wagon driver, whose name could not be ascertained, succumbed to their injuries at the Pano Aqil Taluka Cantonment Hospital.

The injured included Tariq, Amin, Khurshid, Ghulam Mustafa, Imran, Manzooran, Pervaiz Ahmad, Inayatullah, Mohammad Ali, Attaullah, Naheeda, Qaimuddin, Hanif, Abdul Rauf, Azhar, Rafiq Ahmad, Shahid, Umer, Mehmood Ali, Hidayat, Sultan, Shaukat, Zeba and Nazeera.

They were taken to the Pano Aqil Taluka Hospital, Pano Aqil CMH and the Sukkur Civil Hospital.

The wagon passengers, belonging to the Awan tribe, were returning Ghotki after attending a marriage party in Shikarpur.