KHAR: One person was killed and six others were injured when a car met an accident in Bajaur Agency’s Khar tehsil on Friday, local administration officials said.

They said the mishap took place in Yousafabad area on the Khar-Mardan road. Quoting eyewitnesses, the officials said the accident occurred after the driver lost control over the steering due to over-spending.

The officials said the car driver indentified as Waqas Khan died on the spot while six others among them three children and women received critical injures. Local people said the ill-fated car was part of a wedding party heading to Khar from Jarr area.

The locals immediately reached the site of the accident and shifted the dead and the injured to the agency headquarters hospital, Khar.

Later, the body of Waqas was hand over to family.

A doctor at the hospital said condition of all the wounded except a child and a woman was out of danger.

According to him, the child Zahiruddin had been referred to a hospital in Peshawar due to his precious condition while the woman could also be referred to Peshawar if her condition did not improve. According to the locals, the accident blocked the road for about 40 minutes.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2018