Quetta, Pakistan. Forty people were killed and eight others injured after a bus fell into a deep roadside ditch in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Friday, according to a rescue agency and a government official.
Pakistan bus crash
The bus, operated by a private intercity service, was travelling from provincial capital Quetta to the national capital Islamabad, the rescue agency said. It said there were 48 passengers on board at the time of the accident.
The eight injured were given first aid before being moved to a government hospital in Zhob, about 75 km from the accident site in Sherani district, the agency said. The dead were also taken to the same hospital, according to the agency and Sherani Deputy Commissioner Hazrat Wali.
Separate incident in Afghanistan
In a separate incident in neighbouring Afghanistan, four people were killed and 10 others were missing after a truck carrying 22 Afghan refugees from Pakistan plunged into a river along the Kabul–Jalalabad highway, military spokesperson Wahidullah Mohammadi said.