PESHAWAR, Aug 22: Four children of a family, including three girls, were killed and three injured in a road accident on GT Road in the suburbs of the provincial capital late on Tuesday.

According to police, a car coming from Taro village overturned in Chamkani area after the driver rammed his car into an oil tanker parked by the roadside.

In the accident, driver Tariq Shah lost his 10-year-old daughter, Shumaila, and eight-year-old son, Kashif, on the spot and five-year-old daughter, Haseena Shah, and three-year-old daughter, Ayesha, at Lady Reading Hospital.

The man, too, was stated to be in critical condition at the hospital, where his wife, Fiza, and his brother-in-law, Imran, were also under treatment for injures. Reason for the accident has yet to be ascertained but police insist the driver didn’t see the tanker due to darkness on the road and rammed the car into it.

In another incident, six members of a family, including a child, were injured when a CNG cylinder fitted in a car exploded at a filling gas on Charsadda Road on Wednesday morning.

A filling station worker, Najeebullah, also suffered injures in the blast, according to an official of Daudzai police station. He said the injured, Khairuz Zaman, Izat Khan, Bacha Zareena, Fazeelat, Shumaila, child Afaaq and Najeebullah, were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital, where the condition of some was stated to be critical.  The official said the family belonged to Shabqadar area in Charsadda district, while the CNG cylinder exploded for being of low quality.

Meanwhile, at least 18 people were injured in parts of Peshawar on chand raat on Saturday after falling victim to the celebratory firing in the air. Police said many of them were taken to Lady Reading Hospital, Khyber Teaching Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex for treatment of bullet injuries.—Bureau Report