20 injured in road accident

Published January 30, 2006

MARDAN, Jan 29: Twenty commuters, six of them women and three children, were injured when two speedy coaches collided near Shergarh, a village 25 kilometres from here.

According to sources, the coaches coming from opposite directions on the Malakand road collided near Shergarh in which 20 commuters from both vehicles received injuries.

A woman and two men were critically injured who were taken to Peshawar while the others were admitted to the district headquarter hospital of Mardan. The Malakand road, particularly from Takhtbai and onward, has been in extremely bad shape for 10 years and has claimed several lives.

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