JHANG, Feb 21: Twenty-one members of a family were killed and four others were injured in a bus accident near the Aliabad police post on the Jhang-Bhakkar road, some nine kilometres from here, on Thursday.

Reports reaching here said that the family was returning to Mehram Sial in Shorkot tehsil after attending the funeral of a relative in Jhang when their bus collided head-on with a coach coming from the opposite direction. Fifteen people died on the spot and three others on way to the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad. Three of the injured died in the local DHQ Hospital.

The deceased were identified as Amna Bibi, Aysha Bibi, Hanifan Bibi, Maryam, Haleema, Fatima, Ramzana Bibi, Salawat Bibi, Zulaikha, Salma, Sharifan, Khatoon Bibi, Muhammad Ismail, Muhammad Ishfaq, Nadia, Fatima, Shahbaz, Ismael, Burhia Bibi, Ramzan and Bibi. The injured were Hajra Bibi, Khadeeja, Saira and a two-year-old child.