FAISALABAD, June 28: Ten people were killed while 58 others were injured in two road accidents on Friday.

Five people were killed while 23 others were injured, four of them seriously, in a collision between two buses on the Samundri-Faisalabad Road near Khiderwala, about 51km from Faisalabad.

A bus coming from Multan when reached Khiderwala collided with another bus coming from the opposite side. Over two dozen passengers sustained injuries. Five of them died on way to hospital while the others were rushed to the THQ Hospital, Samundri, and the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad. The condition of four of the injured was stated to be critical in the Allied Hospital.

Those killed included Abdul Ghaffar, Bushra Parveen, Muqadas Bibi and Mursaleen.

The injured included Nazeer, Ghulam Muhammad, Azam, Sharifan Bibi, Zulfiqar, Nasreen, Ijaz, Gulzar, Qamar, Ahmad Bibi, Ghafooran, Aqsa, Salma, Shagufta, Abbas and Shaukat.

Five people, including three of a family, were killed and 35 others injured in a head-on collision between two wagons on Alipur Chattha Road in Gujranwala.

A wagon was on its way to Alipur Chattha when it collided head-on with another wagon near Dogranwala village. Shafi, his wife Sughran, three-year-old daughter Sana, Akram and Muhammad Husain died instantly, while 35 others sustained injuries. The injured were rushed to the local DHQ Hospital where the condition of Abid, Anwar Bibi, Haji Amin, Ijaz Husain and Akbar was stated to be serious.

Two schoolteachers were crushed by a speeding bus, some five kilometres from Chishtian, in Bahawalnagar on Thursday night.

Ahsan Warraich and Mahmood Ahmad were going by a motorcycle when a Haroonabad-bound bus hit them. They sustained critical injuries and were rushed to hospital where there succumbed to their injuries.