GWADAR: Seven people, including a child, were killed and eight others injured in a head-on collision between two vehicles on the Makran Coastal Highway on Saturday morning.

The tragic incident occurred in the Manjhi area of Gwadar district. According to police, the accident happened when two cars collided due to an abandoned gas tanker parked on the highway. One of the cars was travelling from Gwadar to Karachi, while the other was coming from Karachi to Gwadar.

SP Muhammad Aslam Bangulzai of Makran Coastal Highway Police said the injured and the deceased were shifted to Ormara Hospital.

Earlier this week, three people, including a husband and wife and another woman, were killed, and two others injured in a road accident in the Bakhtairabad area of the province.

In another incident last month, a local journalist from Balochistan, Aziz Lasi, was killed when three vehicles collided on the Quetta-Karachi National Highway in Winder.

Additionally, four people, including two brothers, were killed when a passenger bus coming from Karachi hit their car in the Darakhala area of Wadh.

Published in Dawn, March 8th, 2026