LAKKI MARWAT/LANDI KOTAL: Twenty-one persons, including six women and two children, were injured in separate road accidents in Lakki Marwat and Khyber Agency.

Reports said a passenger coach overturned while another hit a roadside tree while overtaking a truck near Kharoba Bridge on the Indus Highway, injuring 13 passengers, including six women and two children. One of the coaches was bound for DI Khan, while the other was heading towards Bannu.

The injured were shifted to the district headquarters hospital, Tajazai, said an official. He said the condition of the wounded persons was out of danger.

In Khyber Agency, an eight-member census team, including security men, suffered critical injuries when a vehicle they were travelling in met an accident in Tirah valley on Friday.

Officials said on Saturday the vehicle carrying the census staff to Paindi Cheena locality fell into a ravine while negotiating a narrow turn on a hilly track which resulted in critical injuries to eight people.

They said the injured, who included two soldiers, two Khasadars, one Levies man and a Frontier Corps personnel and a local schoolteacher, were taken to Peshawar for treatment.

Published in Dawn, May 14th, 2017