SAHIWAL, July 28: Eight people were killed and 76 others injured, 25 of them seriously, in a collision between two buses on the Chichawatni flyover. The casualties also include passengers of a rickshaw on which one of the buses fell after smashing the flyover railing.

Police said a Faisalabad-bound bus collided with another one coming from the opposite direction in a bid to save a donkey cart over the flyover. Both the buses fell down after smashing the railings.

One of the buses landed at a rickshaw moving on a road along the flyover, killing its five occupants on the spot. Four of them were identified as Saghiran, Shahnaz Bibi, her son Amir, 8, and Nawazish, a clerk of the education department.

Three passengers of the bus who also died could not be identified.

The injured included Mubashir Hafeez, Tasadduq Hafeez and their father Hafiz Muhammad Hafeez, Sana, Adil, Bilqees, Sultan, Shahzadi and Munazza Ghafoor.