Seven killed, 40 injured in Khairpur Tamewali’s bus crash

Bahawalpur: As many as seven people were killed and 40 were injured in a bus crash that took place in Bahawalpur’s Khairpur Tamewali.

The dreadful incident happened near Adda Asrani where a bus coming from Bahawalnagar crashed with another bus coming towards it. The mishap was so terrible that the bodies of injured passengers were taken out after cutting the wreck of buses.

Meanwhile, the bodies of Muhammad Ashraf, Mainga, Police personnel Shabir Shah, Bilal, Yahya and Fayyaz Khan were recognized among the ones who succumbed to death.

All the victims of tragic bus accident were immediately shifted to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital while the remaining patients were sent to the Tehsil Head Quarters (THQ) Khairpur Tamewali.

Earlier a day, a bus carrying students and teachers on a recreational tour from Lahore has fallen from Jhelum-Dina Bridge, leaving two female students and a teacher dead and 25 wounded in the horrible accident.

According to details, the school was heading towards Murree when the over-speeding bus fell of the bridge on GT Road on early Sunday morning.

The bus fell off the Jhelum-Dina Bridge on a railway line after the driver lost control over the vehicle.

Rescue 1122 officials told the media that two female students, one teach have lost their lives in the accident, whereas, 25 others sustained wounds.

They said that the wounded persons have been shifted to District Headquarters Hospital.

Expressing grief over the school bus accident in Dina, the Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar directed the concerned authorities to provide best medical facilities to the injured.

Pakistan has a poor record of fatal traffic accidents due to poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.