KHUZDAR: Four members of a family died and four others suffered injuries in a head-on collision between a car and a passenger coach near Kalat, on Wednesday.

Officials said a Quetta-bound car coming from Karachi was hit by a passenger coach in the Panja area of Kalat on the National Highway.

Four people, including a woman and two children, were killed on the spot while four others were injured.

The Levies personnel rushed to the scene of the crash and shifted the bodies and the injured to the Kalat district hospital.

The injured were later transferred to Civil Hospital Quetta. The bodies were handed over to heirs after completing medico-legal formalities.

The ill-fated family was on its way to Pishin to celebrate Eid in their village.

Published in Dawn, April 4th, 2024

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