KARACHI, Oct 28: Four persons died and 18 others were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger coach and a trailer on Super Highway, 50kms from Karachi, early Monday morning.

Police and Edhi sources said the accident was a result of early morning fog. It occurred near Ansar Bridge.

Normal traffic remained suspended on the highway for some hours after the accident, police said.

Several other vehicles also ran into each other, injuring several persons.

The Sukkur-bound passenger coach (PE-0954) collided with the trailer (LSD-5293) coming to Karachi.

Of the four dead, Tariq and Imran Ali Khokhar hailed from Shikarpur and Ghulam Abbas from Larkana. The identity of the fourth could not be known, police said.

The injured were identified as Fazalullah, aged 15, Mujahid, 25, Masood, 25, Khaliquzaman, 20, Abdul Latif, 19, Mohammad Farooq, 26, Mohammad Sharif, 23, Umar Khan, 20, Wali Khan, 17, Abdul Hameed, 35, Abdul Ishaq, 25, Bashir Ahmed, 35, Akthar, 22, Ashgar, 21, Javed, 18, Muzaffar, 30 and Mohammad Shah, 40.

The dead were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, while the injured were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre as well as Abbasi.