DERA MURAD JAMALI: At least seven people, among them two women and an army man, were killed and eight others injured when a truck and a coach collided near a village in Bolan district on Friday night.

According to Levies officials, the Quetta-bound wagon coming from Jacobabad collided with the truck coming from the opposite side near Limji village in tehsil Balanari.

The bodies were retrieved from the mangled wreckage of the coach after cutting it.

Soon after the accident, highway police and Levies personnel rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and the injured to the District Hospital Dhadar. The critically injured were later shifted to the Civil Hospital in Quetta.

Six of the deceased were identified as Ghulam Mohammad, Dhayyani Bibi, Samreen Bibi, Ravi Kumar, Nazir Ahmed and wagon driver Abdul Samad.

The injured included Raza Moham­mad, Imam Bakhsh, Sohail Ahmed, Javed Ahmed, Ayaz Ali, Abdul Jamil, Irfan Ahmed and Abdul Rehman.

Published in Dawn, July 19th, 2014

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