MANSEHRA: Four persons, including two brothers, were killed and six injured in separate road accidents in different towns of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday.

Two brothers killed when a dumper truck hit a van on the Karakoram Highway in Mansehra.

The dumper going to Mansehra from Rawalpindi was over-speeding and smashed the van in Gazikot area, turning it into twisted wreckage.

The locals shifted the injured Mohammad Siyad and his brother Mohammad Waqas to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where doctors pronounced both of them dead.

The bodies were later handed over to family, and the city police lodged an FIR.

In Battagram, a van veered off the road and fell into a deep ravine in Damtai area of Allai tehsil, killing two persons and injuring two others, police said.

The deceased were identified as driver Shafi Sultan and Haji Mutabar, while the injured included Ali Rehman and Roban.

The injured were shifted to Banna hospital.

In Shangla, four people were injured when a passenger van fell into a ravine on Khatak Sar road on Friday evening.

Witnesses said the van was on way to mountainous Khatak Sar area. Over a dozen passengers, including women and children, were onboard the vehicle. When it reached Shaw area it skidded off the road and fell into the gorge. The injured were shifted to the tehsil headquarters hospital.

Published in Dawn, January 5th, 2019