Three women among four killed in car-bus collision in DI Khan

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Three women among four people were killed and another woman sustained serious injuries in a collision between a car and a passenger bus in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday evening, ARY News reported.

Police and rescue officials, after being informed, rushed to the scene and shifted the injured and the bodies to the hospital.

The rescue officials said that the four women along with their driver were travelling in their car when their vehicle collided head-on with a passenger bus near Pushta Pul in DI Khan. They said that all the women were of same family.

Police have registered a case and started investigations into the accident. Cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained.

Read More:12 die as speeding vehicle rams into Islamabad Toll Plaza

Earlier on April 29, at least 12 had been killed and six others injured  in a traffic accident at Islamabad Toll Plaza.

The passenger van was travelling to Rawalpindi from Sargodha when it rammed into the walls of Islamabad Toll Plaza.

After the collision, the gas cylinder fitted in the van exploded and the vehicle caught fire. Rescue officials rushed to the scene, after being informed, and shifted the bodies and the injured to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS).

The rescue officials had said that most of the passengers died of the inferno, which erupted after the accident. The sources had said that over speeding was the reason behind the accident.