Horrific bus crash claims 30 lives in Pakistan, several injured
The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital where medical staff confirmed the death of 18 people upon their arrival.
FollowAt least 30 people were killed, mostly labourers who were going to their hometown to celebrate Eid-ul Azha, and over 40 others injured on Monday when a passenger bus collided with a trailer truck on a highway in Dera Ghazi Khan district of Pakistan’s Punjab Province.
The bus was en route from Sialkot to Rajanpur when the accident took place on the Indus Highway near Taunsa bypass in Dera Ghazi Khan district. The majority of the passengers were labourers who were going to their hometown to celebrate Eid-ul Azha, officials said.
The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital where medical staff confirmed the death of 18 people upon their arrival.
Minister of Information and Broadcasting of Pakistan Fawad Chaudhry confirmed that at least thirty people have lost their lives in a traffic accident near Dera Ghazi Khan.
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and Interior minister Sheikh Rashid expressed sorrow over the incident.
Traffic accidents are common in Pakistan and most of them are caused due to overspeeding, bad roads and untrained drivers.
Recently, several people, including Chinese nationals, were killed in a blast targeting a bus in a remote region of northern Pakistan.
The bus was carrying workers to the Dasu Hydropower plant in the Upper Kohistan district. The Das Hydropower Project is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a $ 65 billion investment plan under the Beijing Belt and Road Initiative aimed at connecting western China with the port of Gwadar in southern Pakistan. Chinese engineers have been working with Pakistani construction workers on the Das hydropower project and several other projects for several years in the area where the explosion occurred.
(With inputs from agency)Â
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