The wounded were shifted to a hospital in Lahore. — Photo by AFP

LAHORE: Seven people, including two women, were killed and 11 were wounded in a crash between an oil tanker and a passenger van in Sheikhupura on Monday, DawnNews reported.

The accident occurred on the Lahore-Sargodha road near Sheikhupura district's Jamkay area.

The over speeding passenger van was travelling from Farooqabad to Lahore when it crashed into an oil tanker coming from the opposite direction.

Seven people were killed as a result and 11 were wounded, four of them critically.

The wounded were shifted to a hospital in Lahore.

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