QUETTA: Ten people, women and children among them, were killed and 35 others injured when a bus overturned in Mohabbat Faqir area of the Khuzdar district on Friday.

According to police, the bus carrying a group of pilgrims from Karachi to Shah Noorani shrine met with the accident because of speeding.

“Seven people died and 38 others suffered injuries,” police said.

Rescue teams transferred the dead and the injured to the Ghulam Qadir Civil Hospital in Hub where three people succumbed to their injuries.

According to doctors, some of the critically injured people had been referred to Karachi hospitals.

Police said most of the dead and injured belonged to Dera Ghazi Khan and some other areas of Punjab but they had been living in Karachi’s Shah Faisal Colony to earn their livelihood.

“They hired a bus to travel to the shrine for participating in a festival there,” police said, adding that the driver lost control over the wheel because of speeding.

Bodies were handed over to heirs.

Published in Dawn, June 27th, 2015

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