Eight killed in accident

Published April 30, 2005

NAWABSHAH, April 29: Eight people, including three women and a child, were killed and over 17 injured in a head-on collision between a passenger coach and a trailer near Qazi Ahmed on Friday. The coach was on its way to Karachi from Sukkur while the trailer was coming from the opposite direction when the collision occurred at a place where the road was being repaired. Drivers of both vehicles managed to escape.

The deceased included Ms Huzooran 22, Ms Hasina 35, Ms Gulbahar Buriro 30, Raza Mohammad 40, Gulzar 22, Ramzan 30, a 30-year-old man and a nine-year-old child whose identities could not be ascertained.

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