MANSEHRA: Six members of a family including two women died and seven others sustained critical injuries when a wagon on its way to Rawalpindi plunged into a ravine in the Hati Mera area on Saturday.

“Six [are] dead, two of them women and [the] injured have been shifted here after the accident,” Dr Shahzad Ali Khan the Medical Superintendent of King Abdullah Teaching Hospital told Dawn.

He said that a critically injured six-month-old child was referred to the Ayub Medical Complex Hospital Abbottabad after an emergency treatment.

All thirteen individuals hailed from the Allai area in Battagram, which recently made headlines after eight people were rescued from a dangling chairlift earlier this week.

Seven including six-month-old baby injured

According to eyewitnesses, the van rammed into the boundary wall of the Hazara Expressway and then plunged into the ravine.

Locals and Rescue 1122 officials rushed to the spot and shifted the injured and dead to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital after retrieving them from the gorge.

“We shifted the injured and dead to health facility through six ambulances, as the vehicle has been smashed completely,” Sami Khan, a Rescue 1122 official told Dawn.

The dead were identified as Abdul Raqeeb, Hassan Taj, Siddiqueullah, Amanullah and Aliah Bibi.

According to police, the identity of an elderly woman who died of her injuries on the way to a health facility was yet to be established.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2023