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- About 22 passengers sustain injuries in accident.
- Injured passengers shifted to Basima Civil Hospital.
- Accident happened after tyre of bus burst.
WASHUK: At least 28 people, including women and children, were killed after a passenger bus turned turtle in Balochistan’s Washuk district on Wednesday morning.
According to rescue and Levies officials, about 22 people sustained injuries in the accident and have been moved to the Civil Hospital in Basima.
The accident took place after the tyre of the passenger bus burst, said the rescue officials. The bus was travelling from Gwadar to Quetta.
In May, 13 people belonging to the same family were killed and nine others got wounded as a truck plunged into a ditch in Punjab’s Khushab district.
The accident occurred because of a brake failure on Panj Pir Manawan Road in Khushab, consequently, the truck driver lost control of the vehicle and it fell into the ditch.
The deceased of the ill-fated crash included women, too, and the family was going to Khushab.
In a similar incident in May, 20 people lost their lives while 21 sustained injuries after a passenger bus veered off a narrow mountain road and plummeted into a ravine in a remote area of Diamer district, Gilgit Baltistan.
The mishap took place at the Yashokhal area on the Karakoram Highway in Diamer early Friday morning at around 5:30am, according to police.
The bus was on its way from Rawalpindi to Gilgit. Meanwhile, the police said there were at least 38 passengers on board.
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