26 die in two Punjab road accidents
MULTAN, Nov 4: Twenty-six people, including 10 members of Tableeghi Jamaat, were killed and 50 injured in two road accidents in Muzaffargarh and Faisalabad districts on Sunday.
In the Muzaffargarh crash, 16 passengers died and 27 were injured when a speeding bus collided head on with a coaster at Chowk Munda 100km off Multan on Sunday morning.
According to reports 11 passengers died on the spot and five expired in different hospitals.
The bus (FDU-9976) was heading towards Kot Addu from Lahore. Near Jhangi Adda, some five kilometres from Chowk Munda, it crashed into the Multan-bound coaster (SDJ-6868) trying to save a donkey-cart.
Twelve of the dead were identified as Muhammad Umer, his wife Shamim Akhtar and son Umer Daraz, Muhammad Shafi, Ahmed Ali, Muhammad Khan, Ghulam Siddiq, Abdul Jabbar, Khurram, Mohammad Hanif, Suleman (driver of the coaster), and Ghulam Ali (driver of the bus).
The 18 of the injured were brought to Nishtar Hospital, Multan. The rest were admitted to Muzaffargarh DHQ and Chowk Munda hospitals.
FAISALABAD: Ten people were killed and 23 injured when a bus collided with a trailer near Roshan Jhal on Samundri Road on Sunday night.
The bus carrying Tableeghi Jamaat members was going to Dera Ghazi Khan from Raiwind after the conclusion of the annual moot there earlier in the day.
Nine of the dead were identified as Akhtar Nawaz, Haji Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Ismail, Noor Jhan, Karim Khan, Haji Bakht Gull, Younas Khan and Abdul Rehman. They all belonged to Dera Ghazi Khan.
The injured were admitted to Allied Hospital, Faisalabad.