RAWALPINDI: One student was killed and twelve others were injured when a passenger bus overturned and fell ten feet down the road near Kahuta on Friday, police said.

As many as ten students of KRL technical college were travelling to Kalar Syedian in a public transport.

When it was negotiating a turn it overturned due to speeding and fell ten feet down the road. The passengers travelling in the bus sustained cuts and wounds and some of them were treated by ambulance crews.

Some of the injured were shifted to Benazir Bhutto Hospital and Kahuta hospital where they received treatment.

Published in Dawn, November 29th, 2014

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