MANSEHRA: At least 15 people, seven of them students from a Peshawar college, sustained injuries in two separate road accidents in Kaghan valley here on Saturday.

A van carrying seven students skidded off the road and fell into a ravine in Khania area. The students were on a study tour to Kaghan valley.

The injured were taken to civil hospital, Balakot from where they were referred to Ayub Medical Complex in Abbottabad. According to doctors, two of the injured were in critical condition.

In another incident, eight tourists were injured when a jeep plunged into a ravine in Paris area. The locals rushed to the scene soon after the incident and shifted the injured to civil hospital, Balakot.

Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2018