KHUZDAR: At least seven people, including a woman, were killed and two others injured when two cars collided head-on on the Quetta-Karachi National Highway near Kalat on Sunday evening.

Levies officials said the bodies of the victims had been retrieved from the wreckage of the two vehicles.

One of the ill-fated cars was coming from Quetta and the other from Karachi and the collision was caused by speeding, they said.

“Seven people died on the spot,” an official said, adding that a woman and a man were critically injured and shifted to a hospital in Quetta.

Soon after the incident, Frontier Corps and other law enfo­rcement personnel rushed to the site and shifted the bodies to district hospitals in Kalat and Surab.

They were identified as Mohammad Zubair of Khaliqabad, Abdul Rasheed of Mastung, Amir Hamza, Bibi Zahida, Abdul Ghaffar, Mohammad Asif and Taj Mohammad of Quetta.­ The injured were identified as Rasheeda Bibi and Mohammad Ibrahim.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2017

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