No fewer than 40 people have been reportedly killed after a passenger bus crashed into a pillar, fell off a bridge and caught fire in southern Pakistan on Sunday, a government official said. The accident occurred near the town of Bela, in Lasbela district, according to Aljazeera. It was learnt that the bus was carrying 44 passengers from Quetta in Balochistan province to Karachi in neighbouring Sindh province.
It was learnt that the bus was carrying 44 passengers from Quetta in Balochistan province to Karachi in neighbouring Sindh province.
“The accident happened due to over-speeding and the bus crashed into the pillar of a bridge. It caught fire soon after falling ,” he said. Firefighters and workers from the Lasbela Welfare Trust and the Edhi Welfare Foundation carried out the rescue operation. In a separate incident, in Pakistan’s northwest, at least 10 students who were on a picnic drowned after their boat capsized in a lake on Sunday, police said.
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