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CHINIOT, Dec 19: Twelve people, including three family members, were killed and 41 others sustained injuries on Thursday in three road accidents in the Punjab.
Five people, including three of a family, were killed when a speeding bus rammed into a mud house on the Jhang Road, some 10 kilometres from Chiniot.
The bus (ST-277) at high speed was going to Lahore from Jhang when suddenly a tractor-trolley appeared from a link road near Jasrai Adda. To avoid collision, the bus driver applied emergency brakes but the speeding vehicle smashed into a roadside mud house. As a result, Perveen, her two sons Shahid and Musaddaq who were asleep in their house, while Sher and Ali Hussain, who were standing on roadside, died instantly. At least 21 passengers, including Yasin, Muhammad Yar, Munawar, Saba Husain, Shahnaz Manzoor, Shafiqe, Zahid, Saifullah, Haq Nawaz, Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Ali, Nawaz, Saqlain, Hameeda Begum, Muzammil, Nasir, Arif, Shaukat and Ameeruddin received serious injuries.
Edhi ambulances took the injured to the local THQ Hospital while seriously injured were admitted to Allied Hospital, Faisalabad.
JHANG: Three people were killed and five others suffered critical wounds on Thursday in an accident on the Jhang-Multan Road, some 10 kilometres from here.
The driver of a Shorkot-bound speeding truck (RIC-1705) in his bid to overtake a trailer collided the vehicle with it from behind near Aliabad. Ghulam Mustafah, Ramazan and Faisal of Sargodha died on the spot while five other aboard the truck received wounds. The injured were admitted to the DHQ Hospital, Jhang, where their condition was stated to be stable.
GUJRAT: Four passengers, including the bus driver, were killed while 15 others received injuries, two of them serious, in a mishap on the GT Road near Dina, some 90 kms from here.
A speeding bus (JA-5881) was on its way to Rawalpindi from Lahore. In a bid to negotiate a sharp turn near Dina, the bus overturned after its driver lost control over the steering. Driver Qazi Iqrar, passengers Tahir Abbas, Zahid Javed and Shaukat Mehmood died instantly while 15 others suffered injuries. They were admitted to Dina DHQ Hospital where two of them were said to be in critical condition.
They injured were identified as Afshan, Abid Ali, Pir Iftikhar, Ilyas, Hassan Abbas, Imtiaz Qureshi, Waseem Ahmad, Sajid Haider, Aqeel, Noor Shahzad, Khalid Beg, Muhammad Ali, Saleem Beg, Nadeem and conductor Ghazanfar.
