RAWALPINDI, Sept 17: A newly married couple was killed while four others injured in a road accident on Sunday.

A passenger bus (LXP-5220), 42 passengers on board, smashed into a long-wheeler truck on going ahead at Motorway Balkasr some 52 kilometre from Islamabad, police said.

The police said the victims identified as Muhammad  Saleem, Muhammad Anwar, Moeen Khan and his wife Sobia were pulled out of the damaged bus and shifted to the DHQ hospital where Moeen Khan his wife Sobia were pronounced dead. While the injured are said to be in stable condition. Two other injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.

Police  said the bus driver went into slumber while overtaking  a truck, as result the bus veered off the road and smashed into a heavy truck B-1236 going ahead of it.

Our Staff Reporter from Islamabad adds: A survivor of Saturday’s firing incident died in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) here on Sunday, police said.

Abid Khokar, who suffered multiple bullet injuries during an assassination of his uncle Haji Nawaz Khokar at Dhoke Azam, was kept in the ICU ward.

According to police he received bullet injuries on his head and arms. Police registered a triple murder case on the complaint of Saqib Nawaz, son of Mr Khokar against the family member of Afzal Habib.

He said the killer first tried to kill his father on August 28, however, Mr Nawaz survived but his servant Nadeem was killed in the incident at Dhoke Diptian.

The complainant told police that his relatives, with whom they had old enmity on a piece of land, killed his father, brother Kashif Nawaz and cousin Abid Khokar.