MANSEHRA: Eleven people sustained critical injuries when a Gilgit-bound passenger coach overturned on the Karakoram Highway while speeding in Chakai area of Lower Kohistan district on Saturday.

“The condition of three of the injured is critical, who have been shifted to a hospital in Abbottabad,” Sajid Ali, district emergency officer of Rescue 1122, Lower Kohistan, told reporters.

The coach was on its way to Gilgit from Rawalpindi.

A Rescue 1122 squad along with ambulances rushed onto the scene and shifted eight of the injured to a nearby health facility, and the rest to Ayub Medical Complex Hospital, Abbottabad.

“Our team provided immediate medical relief to all those injured in the accident, and shifted three of the critically injured to Ayub Medical Complex Hospital, Abbottabad,” Mr Ali said.

He said those injured in the accident included Liaqat Ali and Imran Khan of Mardan, Naseem Khan of Attock, Mohammad Saddam and Sadaqat Khan of Haripur, Izhar Khan, Rehan Ali and Hazrat Hussain of Lower Dir, Rasheed Ahmad of Chitral, Ahsanullah of Bajaur, and Javed Khan of Batkhela Malakand.

Published in Dawn, June 23rd, 2024