MANSEHRA: Three people, including a couple, were killed and 13 others sustained critical injuries when a passenger van plunged into a ravine in Kandia area of Upper Kohistan on Wednesday.

“A sub-inspector of Karang police station also received injuries in the accident.

The injured were shifted to hospital,” Saifullah, a local resident, told reporters in Dasu.

The driver of the vehicle, which was on its way to Kamial from Kandia area, could not hold control over the steering while negotiating a steep, which resulted in the vehicle plunging into a ravine in Jamra village.

The local people rushed to the scene and shifted the injured to the civil hospital in Dasu and the district headquarters hospital where doctors pronounced three of them dead.

According to locals, the 13 injured, including women and children, were referred to Ayub Medical Complex Hospital in Abbottabad.

The dead were identified as Misar Khan, his wife and Mohammad Bhutto, whose bodies were handed over to families on completion of medico-legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2019

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