QUETTA: At least nine people were killed and 12 others injured after a passenger van collided with a courier service vehicle on the RCD Highway in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district on Tuesday.
Levies officials said the accident occurred near the Korak area of Baghbana, some 25km from Khuzdar.
The passenger van, travelling from Totak, rammed into the courier vehicle coming from the opposite direction while taking a blind turn, killing four people on the spot and injuring 17.
Levies officials and rescue workers rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to the Teaching Hospital Khuzdar, where five more people died of injuries.
“We have received nine bodies, including five women, and 12 injured,” hospital officials told Dawn, adding that five critically injured people, including two women, were shifted to Karachi for treatment.
Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2022
