SWABI/LAKKI MARWAT: Six persons were killed and 11 others injured in separate road accidents on Tuesday, the police said.

Three people were killed and four injured when a speeding passenger coach crashed into a loaded truck on the Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway in Chota Lahor tehsil of Swabi in the wee hours of Tuesday.

Rescue 1122 officials said a survivor of the accident called the rescuers immediately after the accident.

They said the coach was on way to Mardan from Rawalpindi.

The rescuers retrieved the bodies and injured from the coach and took them to Mardan Medical Complex Hospital.

The injured were identified as Usman Sheraz from Lahore, and Ikramullah Khan, Yousaf Shah and Murtaza Khan of Mardan.

The deceased were identified as Arshad Khan, 65, of Charsadda, Amir Khan, 40, of Mardan and a child.

Separately, a man died when a rickshaw collided with a truck on Swabi-Jehangira Road. The deceased was identified as Hamad Khan hailing from Chota Lahor village.

The police registered a case against the rickshaw driver.

Also on Tuesday, two people were killed and seven others wounded in a head-on collision between a car and a coach on Indus Highway in Serai Gambila town of Lakki Marwat.

A rescue official said a medical team along with ambulances reached the site and shifted the bodies and the injured to the district headquarters hospital.

The deceased were identified as car driver Ashiq Hussain of Peshawar, and a coach driver Azizur Rehman of Tank.

The injured passengers also included women and children. Some injured in critical condition were referred to Bannu and Peshawar hospitals.

Published in Dawn, May 26th, 2021