FAISALABAD, March 12: Five mill workers were killed and seven others sustained injuries in an accident on Faisalabad-Chak Jhumra Road, 21km from here, on Tuesday.

Police said two dozen workers of Shama Textile Mills, Faisalabad, were returning home in the evening when their wagon collided head-on with an NLC trailer near Jhandanwala railway crossing.

Nearby villagers rescued the injured by cutting the body of the wagon. All the injured were shifted to the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, where doctors pronounced five of them dead. The condition of two others was stated to be critical.

The dead were identified as Farhat, son of Mohammad Shafi; Mohammad Fiaz, son of Mohammad Rasheed; Mohammad Tariq, son of Mohammad Muneer; Mohammad Shakir and Rashid Ali — all residents of Chak 137-RB.

The injured are: Mudassar, Muzaffar Iqbal, Saqib, Zafar, Haroon Babar, Asif and Azhar.