NOWSHERA: Three people, including a woman, were killed and nine others sustained serious injuries when a passenger coach collided with a truck in Nowshera Cantonment on Wednesday.

Officials said that a passenger coach, going from Peshawar to Abbottabad, collided head on with a truck on the Mall. As a result, three persons were killed and nine others received injuries.

Eyewitnesses said that both vehicles were travelling at a high speed when they hit each other. Soon after the accident, the local administration and army personnel reached the spot and retrieved the bodies and the

injured after cutting the vehicles. Four of the injured were stated to be army men and one was an Air Force official.

The killed passengers were identified as Tahira Bibi, a resident of Abbottabad and Abdul Qayyum and Atlas Khan, both residents of Peshawar. The injured included Shakir, Waqas, Awais Khan, Imran, Aqsa and her brother Ashraf. The injured army men were identified as Fazlur Rehman, Mohammad Yasin, Mohammmad Riaz and Rizwan.

The bodies and the injured were shifted to the district headquarters hospital and combined military hospital in Nowshera.

Hospital sources said that three of the injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar in precarious condition.

Police arrested the driver of the truck and registered a case.

Published in Dawn, August 28th, 2014