PESHAWAR, Jan 6: Seven people were killed and 19 others injured when a landslide hit a passenger bus on the Karakoram Highway in Kohistan district on Thursday night, officials said.

Police officials, when contacted by phone, said on Friday that the accident took place near Sazan, about 100km south of Dassu, the district headquarters. The passenger bus was coming from Gilgit to Rawalpindi via Sazan.

Local people and police retrieved the bodies as well as the injured from the wreckage of the bus. Later the bodies and the wounded persons were evacuated by military helicopters on Friday morning.

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