SUKKUR: Four people, including a three-year-old girl, were killed and more than 25 others injured when a bus carrying a wedding party plunged into a ditch in Shikarpur district on Sunday.

The accident took place along a link road within the jurisdiction of the Mian Sahib police station, apparently after the tie-rod of the bus broke and it went out of its driver’s control.

The deceased men were identified as Mureed Ahmed, 35, Zahoor Ahmed, 26, and Nabi Bakhsh, while the girl as Baby Saira, daughter of Mohammad Nawaz. The wedding party belonged to the Channo community.

The deceased and injured victims, many of them women and children, were transported to different hospitals in Shikarpur and Jacobabad.

They were returning to their village located along Jhangi Wah (irrigation channel) near Mirpur Buriro town of Jacobabad district after attending a wedding ceremony in Osta Mohammad town of Balochistan when the bus met with the accident, according to police.

Locals, along with police retrieved the victims from the wrecked bus and shifted them to the hospitals.

The bodies were handed over to the heirs after medico-legal formalities and then laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard in Jacobabad.

Published in Dawn, May 11th, 2026