SEHWAN: At least five people, two women and a child among them, were killed and four others wounded when a speeding truck rammed into a rickshaw in the vanity of Sehwan late Saturday night, ARY News reported.
Police and rescue sources said a speedy mazda truck collided with a rickshaw coming from the opposite direction near Lakki Shah Saddar, leaving five members of a family dead and four others with life-threatening injuries.
Rescue officials said the deceased and injured have been shifted to a nearby health facility where the injured are stated to be fighting for their lives.
The deceased and injured are yet to be identified.
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Earlier this week, at least eleven people were killed and 21 others wounded in a collision between a bus and parked tractor-trolley in southern Punjab district of Layyah.
Another accident in the provincial capital of Punjab, Lahore had claimed lives of two brothers when they were hit by an over-speeding car in Gulberg area.
