Eight dead as passenger van plunges into ravine in Upper Dir

Upper Dir: At least 8 people died and 7 others sustained critical injuries after a passenger van plunged into a ravine in the Patrak area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Dir district on Monday, GNN reported.

According to details, police and rescue officials rushed to the accident spot immediately after getting the information about the accident.

Rescue sources reported that the injured have been shifted to District Headquarters Hospital where the condition of four is stated to be critical.

The local police stated that the passenger van was on its way from Mardan to Kalkot when it plunged into a gorge as soon as it reached Chalal in the Patrak area of Upper Dir.

On March 15, seven members of a family were killed when a car they were traveling in fell into a canal in Khanpur tehsil of Rahim Yar Khan District. The family was traveling from Khanpur to Rahim Yar Khan when their vehicle plunged into the Abbasia canal near Kot Samaba 86-pul.

The deceased included Nasreen Bibi (50), Rabia Bibi (30), Faizan (20), Mubashir (7) Atif (9), Rafique, and Mushtaq.