DADU: Five people were killed and three others injured when a trailer truck rammed into an ambulance on the Jamshoro-Sehwan Indus highway on Saturday night.

All the victims were travelling in the ambulance, which was taking the body of a deceased from Karachi to Ahmed Pur in Punjab, police said.

People from nearby villages rushed to the spot, cut parts of the mangled ambulance to take out the victims and took them to the Manjhand hospital.

Those who died were identified as six-year-old Anisa, daughter of Rashid; two-year-old Mohammed Ahmed, son of Rashid; 40-year-old Asif, driver of the ambulance; and a 36-year-old unidentified man and a 45-year-old unidentified woman.

The injured were Seeman, wife of Mohammad Hanif Malik; Saima Bibi, wife of Rashid Hussain and Wajid, son of Ghulam Hussain.

An eyewitness, Mohammad Salim, resident of Manjhand, told Dawn that the injured had been trapped in the wreckage of the ambulance and were crying and calling for help.Local people used cutters to take them out from the ambulance.

He said when the victims were taken to the Manjhand hospital, there was no doctor at the hospital.

Published in Dawn, June 20th, 2016