ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: Two persons were killed and 17 critically injured when a passenger wagon overturned at the Islamabad- Peshwar Motorway on Thursday, police and hospital sources said.

According to the police, a passenger wagon going to Mardan from Rawalpindi, overturned near Burhan after its driver fell asleep and lost control over the vehicle. The injured were shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims).

One Ismail and an identified man died before reaching the hospital.