25 hurt as bus falls off bridge

Published July 9, 2005

GUJRANWALA, July 8: At least 25 passengers sustained injured, five of them serious, when a Rawalpindi-bound bus fell from a bridge here on Friday. Eyewitnesses said when the speeding bus reached Kamoki-Khaili bridge on the GT Road, the driver lost control over it due to slippery condition of the road and it fell down.

The injured were rushed to the DHQ hospital. The seriously injured people have been identified as Fiaz Ahmad, Salim, Imran, Razia and Tufail Ahmad.

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