20 killed in accident

Published December 9, 2006

PESHAWAR, Dec 8: At least 20 people were killed and four others injured when a coach fell into a ravine off the Karakoram Highway in Kohistan district in the wee hours of Friday.

The coach was going from Rawalpindi to Chilas when the driver lost control at a turn at Trais Banda in Pattan tehsil.

A Pattan police official said the coach had fallen into a 1,500-feet-deep ravine.

He said eight of the deceased were army sepoys.