QUETTA, Jan 9: Seven persons were killed and 14 others injured, four of them seriously, when a passenger wagon fell in a deep ditch on Quetta-Chaman road near Shela Bagh, some 90kms from here late on Thursday night.

According to hospital sources, five passengers died on the spot and two others succumbed to their injuries in Civil Hospital Quetta. The injured were admitted to Quetta and Chaman Civil Hospitals.

Sources said that a wagon carrying with 21 passengers was on its way to Quetta from Chaman.

When it reached near Shela Bagh the driver lost control of the vehicle before it fell in a deep roadside ditch.

The Frontier Corps personnel and people of the area rushed to the accident site and recovered the bodies and injured from the ditch. Five out of seven killed were identified as Mohammad Yaqoob, Mohammad Rasool, Mohammad Jamil, Khudadad and Niaz Mohammad. The names of the other two victims could not be known.

Mohammad Rasool, Mohammad Yaqoob, and Mohammad Jamil were Afghan nationals and belonged to Zabul and Kandahar.