8 of a family die in Sohawa accident

Published November 6, 2002

ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Eight members of a family, including four women, were killed and two other women injured in a road accident near Sohawa, late Tuesday night, police sources said.

According to the sources, a small van (LHHA-2818) carrying nine passengers was travelling to Lahore from Chakwal when it was hit by an unidentified vehicle on GT Road near Sohawa, some 85km off here in the jurisdiction of Rawalpindi police.

Four men and three women died on the spot and two women were critically injured, the sources said. Later one more injured woman died in the hospital.

The dead and the injured were taken to Sohawa hospital. The identity of the victims could not be ascertained as the two injured women are still unconscious, the sources said.

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