Pakistan: 30 killed, 15 injured in a bus-car collision

In Pakistan, at least 30 people were killed on Karakoram Highway in the Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday night, when a passenger bus fell into a deep ravine after colliding with a car, police said. 15 others have sustained injuries.The accident took place when the speeding passenger bus travelling from Gilgit to Rawalpindi collided with the car near the Shatial check post in Diamir district of Gilgit Baltistan. Both vehicles fell into the deep ravine, police said, adding that the dead bodies have been shifted to a nearby hospital. According to World Health Organisation estimates, more than 27,00 people were killed on Pakistan’s roads in 2018.

Last month, at least 41 people were killed after a passenger coach fell into a ravine in Balochistan’s Lasbela. Lasbela Assistant Commissioner Hamza Anjum said the vehicle, with nearly 48 passengers on board, was travelling from Quetta to Karachi.