HYDERABAD, Oct 21: A pedestrian was killed after he was hit by a car on the Super Highway while 15 passengers, including women and children, suffered injuries on Saturday in a head-on collision between a Mirpurkhas-bound van and a car near Rahuki.

Reports said that a car hit Sabir Hussain Khaskheli when he was crossing the Super Highway. His body was handed over to his relatives after autopsy at the Liaquat University Hospital, Jamshoro.

In the other accident, 15 passengers including women and children suffered injuries, five of them serious, when a Mirpurkhas-bound van collided head-on with a car coming from the opposite direction near Rahuki in the jurisdiction of Tandojam police station.

Police and Edhi volunteers rushed to the scene and removed the injured to Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad.

The hospital declared an emergency and summoned the staff and doctors from their homes.

The injured were identified as Ms Ishrat (45), wife of Amjad, Ms Sidra (20), Ms Mehwish (18), Zohaib (25), Mohammad Anwar (40), Ramesh Kumar (42), Ms Shazia (30), Zahid (35), Anees (8), Ali (6), Sameer (10), Sardar Begum (40), Moin (60) and Arsalan (35).