GWADAR: Six passengers were killed in a road accident and four members of a family died from suffocation after inhaling smoke emitted by an electricity generator in Gwadar district.

Six people, including two sisters, were killed and 21 others injured when a Karachi-bound passenger coach hit a truck on the Coastal Highway near the Nalent area on Wednesday.

According to police, the accident took place when the coach was overtaking a truck. The driver lost control of the coach and it collided with the truck.

Police and personnel of the Frontier Corps took the injured and the bodies to the District Hospital in Gwadar from where those with serious injuries were shifted to Karachi.

The deceased were identified as Mohammad Tayyab, Pervez, Mohammad Asif, Abdul Latif, Alvera and Fiza.

On Tuesday night, four members of a family — including two brothers, a woman and a child — died from suffocation after inhaling smoke released by an electricity generator in Pishkan, a fishing town near Gwadar.

According to Levies officials, the family was sleeping in a room where the generator was running because of power loadshedding. Smoke accumulated in the room and caused the death of the four.

However, a woman survived and was found unconscious in the room. She was taken to the District Hospital in Gwadar where she was admitted.

The victims included Mohammad Zahid and Abdul Wahid, Wahid’s wife and a six-year-old son of Zahid.

Published in Dawn, September 1st, 2016