KHAR: One person was killed and six others were injured in a road accident in Bajaur Agency’s Khar tehsil here on Monday.

Local residents said that the accident occurred in Nisarabad area on the Khar- Peshawar highway when two cars collided head-on due to over-speeding, killing one person identified as Abdul Qayum and injuring six others, including two women.

Following the accident, the locals and Bajaur Levies personnel reached the site of the accident and shifted the wounded to the agency headquarters hospital, Khar.

A doctor at the hospital said three wounded persons belonged to the same family, adding condition of all the injured was out of danger.

Published in Dawn, January 2nd, 2018