HARIPUR: Four young friends died when an oil tanker hit the car they were travelling in, police and hospital sources said here on Saturday.

According to police, the cause of the accident was reckless driving by the oil tanker driver.

Sera-i-Saleh police said that the friends were coming to their home from Abbottabad. When they reached near Sera-i-Saleh at 11.45pm on Friday, an oil tanker coming from the Haripur side struck their car.

The accident was so severe that the man in the driving seat and three other passengers died on the spot.

The deceased were identified as Umar Mehtab, 23, Shahmir Javed, 28, Saifur Rahman, 19, residents of Mohallah Khajooran Darvesh here, and Ahsan, 26, their guest from Quetta.

Police registered a case against the oil tanker driver, identified as Faridullah, hailing from Shangla district.

Meanwhile, Mehtab, Javed and Saifur Rehman were laid to rest after collective funeral prayers in their native graveyards in the Darvesh village on Saturday morning, while the body of Ahsan was flown to Quetta.

Published in Dawn, October 25th, 2026