KARACHI (Reuters) – Two bus accidents in northeast and southwest Pakistan killed as not less than 34 individuals on Sunday, the authorities stated.
Twelve pilgrims died on the Makran Coastal Freeway within the southwest, the inside ministry stated, whereas a rescue official stated 22 had died when their passenger bus plunged right into a deep ravine in Pakistan-ruled Kashmir.
Rescue coordinator Rawalpindi Muhammad Usman stated the second bus had 25 passengers, together with six ladies and a toddler, of whom 22 had died and one was critically injured. All of the our bodies have been recovered from the ravine, he stated.
The inside ministry, nevertheless, stated 29 had died in that crash.
Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi in an announcement expressed “heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the families of the deceased in both accidents.”
On Wednesday, a bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims overturned in central Iran, killing 28 passengers and injuring one other 23 individuals.