SUKKUR: The driver of a van and its three women passengers, one among them pregnant, were killed and 10 others were injured when the speeding vehicle’s tyre suddenly burst, sending the van to skid and overturn at Thariri bus stop near Dakhan area in Shikarpur district on Monday.

Witnesses said that the van driver and a woman died instantly and 13 passengers sustained fatal injuries after the vehicle overturned at a high speed. People near the accident scene rushed to help the wounded and informed police about it.

Police arrived with ambulances and helped rescuers retrieve the dead and the wounded from the mangled vehicle. The bodies and the wounded were transported to the nearest hospitals through ambulances and private vehicles, said police officials.

They said that when the wounded were being treated at a hospital, two more women succumbed to their injuries and died. Four of the wounded were shifted to a major hospital in Larkana due to their precious condition, they said.

Police officials said that three of the dead were identified as Ms Samina, Ms Ghulam Fatima and Ms Husna while names of the driver and the wounded passengers could not be ascertained immediately.

They said that though the cause of accident appeared to be obvious still they were looking into eyewitnesses’ accounts to fix responsibility for the accident.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2024