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