DERA MURAD JAMALI: Five members of a family were killed and another was injured in a collision between a car and a truck on Quetta-Sukkur National Highway near Sibi on Monday, police said.

A police officer, Abdul Malik, was travelling to Jaffarabad along with his family in his car from Quetta.

When the car was near the Methri area in Sibi district, it collided with a truck. Mr Malik, his mother, son and daughter died on the spot while his wife and sister-in-law were injured.

According to sources, one of the injured women, Shehnaz Bibi, died in a Jacobabad hospital during treatment.

The other deceased were identified as Abdul Malik, Jeeja Bibi, Abdul Kabeer and Sania Bibi.

“The bodies were stuck in the car which was badly damaged,” a police officer said, adding that the bodies were recovered after cutting the wreckage.

Police officials said that Mr Malik was driving the car and due to speeding he lost control and rammed into the truck parked by the roadside.

Rescue workers and police rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and the injured to the district hospital Sibi.

The injured woman was identified as Haleema Bibi.

The bodies were handed over to heirs after completion of medico-legal formalities.

They were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard in Pul Musafir village near Jacobabad.

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2017