SUKKUR, Sept 20: Ten passengers, including two women, were killed and 20 injured when their bus rammed into a stationary dump truck on the National Highway near Rohri on Sunday night.

The passenger bus was going to Alipur (Punjab) from Karachi. The bus driver fled after the accident. Edhi volunteers and villagers rushed to the site and took the injured to the taluka hospital in Rohri and the Civil and Anwar Piracha hospitals in Sukkur.

Those killed were: Zubeda, 30, wife of Faizur Rasool; Mohammad Yousuf, 14, son of Allah Wadhayo; Noor Mohammad, son of Sher Mohammad; Farhan, Aamir Hussain, and Malik Dilshad.

Their bodies were at the taluka hospital in Rohri even 15 hours after the accident. Those injured were Ms Simla, Sajid, Abdul Majeed, Mohammad Khan, Riaz, Afzal, Khalil, Ms Iqbal, Akhtar, Niaz Hussain, Bibi Kanwal, Ghulam Sarwar, Amjad, Khalid, Mohammad Wasi, Asif, Faiz Rasool and others.

The condition of six of the injured is said to be critical and they have been shifted to the intensive care unit of the Sukkur Civil Hospital. Most of the killed and injured belonged to Muzaffargarh, Sultanpur and Bahawalpur.