MANSEHRA: Five people were killed and six others sustained critical injuries in two separate traffic accidents here on Thursday.

“We shifted the dead and injured to nearby health facilities after the incidents,” a Rescue 1122 official told reporters.

In the first incident, three people were killed when two vehicles collided head-on at high speed near Shatay Interchange on Hazara Expressway in the Dodial area.

Rescue teams rushed to the scene and shifted the injured to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where doctors pronounced three of them dead. According to rescuers, all those killed in the accident belonged to the Janu Mundi area of Shinkiari.

The bodies were handed over to their families after completion of medico-legal formalities.

In another incident in the College Doraha area, a speeding pickup vehicle rammed into a roadside tree, leaving several passengers injured.

Rescue personnel shifted the injured to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where doctors pronounced two of them dead, while six passengers were discharged after receiving emergency treatment.

Officials said the pickup was travelling from Baffa to Mansehra when the driver lost control of the steering, causing the vehicle to crash into a tree.

The police have registered FIRs and launched investigation to ascertain the exact causes of the accidents.

Published in Dawn, May 1st, 2026