KHUZDAR: Three people, including the chairman of Wadh Municipal Commit­tee (WMC), were killed and three others critically inju­red in a head-on collision between a pickup and a jeep on the Quetta-Karachi Natio­­nal Highway on Wednesday.

Levies officials said WMC Chairman Moham­mad Umar was travelling along with the headmaster of a government-run school and others in a pickup.

When they reached the Waheer area of Wadh, a jeep coming from the opposite direction collided with the pickup, they added.

The three people were killed on the spot. The headmaster has been identified as Mohammad Usman. The name of the third deceased, a woman, could not be immediately ascertained. The three people injured in the accident also included a woman.

Levies personnel shifted the bodies and the injured to the district hospital Khuzdar.

Officials have linked the accident to speeding.

Published in Dawn, December 14th, 2023

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