TAXILA: Two persons were killed and 28 others injured in separate rain-related road accidents in Pindigheb and Taxila on Saturday, police and rescue sources said.

In the first incident, a woman and her minor son died while three other family members were injured when the car they were travelling in crashed into a roadside ditch after the driver lost control of the vehicle due to slippery road near Pindigheb on Hakla-D.I. Khan Motorway on Saturday.

The woman, 39, and her three-year-old son Hamza died on the spot while her husband, Naveed Atta, 44, Sidra, 11, and Haris, 7, were critically injured.

The injured were shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Pindigheb. According to police, the family was heading to Mianwali from Islamabad.

Separately, 25 passengers on board a bus were injured after the vehicle slipped and overturned on G.T. Road near Margalla Hills in the limits of Taxila police station on Saturday.

According to police and hospital sources, the bus was carrying members of the Tableeghi Jamaat.

The injured were shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Taxila from where five critically injured were taken to Rawalpindi.

According to police sources, some Uzbek nationals were also among the injured. The bus was taking the passengers to Peshawar.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2024