KHUZDAR: Eleven people were killed and 29 others suffered injuries in a road accident on the Karachi-Quetta highway in the Saman area of Khuzdar district on Monday.

According to police, a passenger coach overturned and fell into a ditch along the highway. They said the driver lost control over the steering wheel while taking a sharp turn on the road due to over-speeding.

The coach carrying around 40 passengers was on its way to Karachi from Quetta.

Two brothers travelling from Khuzdar to Karachi were among the dead.

Police and Frontier Corps personnel shifted the injured and bodies to the the civil hospital in Khuzdar with the help of rescue workers. Two women were among the injured.

A state of emergency was declared in the hospital where a large number of people had come to donate blood for the injured.

The deceased were identified as Abdul Wasey, Abdul Zahir, Mehsood Khan, Abdul Hadi, Maqsood Khan, Mohammad Hussain, Syed Sanaullah, Mohammad Imran, Mohammad, Niaz Ahmed and Sanaullah.

Bodies were sent to Karachi, Khuzdar, Musakhel, Thatta and Lasbela.

Published in Dawn, June 28th, 2016

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