Traumatic accident: Bus and truck collide in Pakistan, 30 passengers killed, more than 40 injured
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30 people died in a painful road accident in Pakistan on Monday morning. The accident happened due to a collision with a bus-truck. It is being told that people were returning home after boarding the bus to celebrate Bakrid. Meanwhile, an accident happened on Tanusa Road.
30 passengers were killed and more than 40 were injured in a bus-truck collision in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Of these, the condition of 4 is critical. Women and children were also among the dead. The accident happened on Tanusa Road near Dera Ghazi Khan in Muzaffargarh. The death toll in the accident is feared to rise. The injured were admitted to a nearby hospital. Medical workers of the hospital said that 18 people had died before reaching the hospital. Treatment of the rest of the injured is going on. Some of them are in serious condition.
According to media reports, the bus was moving at high speed. District Emergency Officer Dr. Nayyar Alam told that 75 passengers were on the bus. Most of them were laborers, who were going home for holidays on the festival of Eid. The bus was going from Sialkot to Rajanpur. Relief and rescue operations are on. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid expressed grief over the incident. He said that they are keeping an eye on the incident.
Ministers expressed grief
Pakistan’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry confirmed that at least 30 people died in the accident near Dera Ghazi Khan. Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar expressed grief over the incident. Road accidents happen frequently in Pakistan and most of these are due to over speeding of vehicles, bad roads and untrained drivers.
