Passenger bus accident in Pakistan’s Khuzdar kills 18

Locals gather supplies next to a damage bus at the site of accident in Khuzdar, a remote district in the Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, Friday, June 11, 2021. (AP)

• Fatal road accidents are common in Pakistan where traffic rules are rarely enforced and roads in rural areas are poor
• Local media reported the passenger coach lost control and turned turtle because it was over-speeding

ISLAMABAD: At least 18 people were killed after a passenger bus crashed in Khuzdar in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, local media reported.
The accident comes less than a week after a deadly train collision in Pakistan’s Sindh province in which at least 56 were killed and over a 100 injured.
“The passenger coach was traveling from Wadh to Dadu when it met with an accident at Khori in Khuzdar district of Balochistan, as a result of which 15 people on the bus died on the spot while 30 others were injured,” Geo News reported. “As soon as the accident was reported, rescue and Levies personnel rushed to the spot and started rescue operations.”
Geo said bodies as well as injured passengers were shifted to Teaching Hospital Khuzdar where three more people died. The condition of some of the injured is said to be critical.
“Sources said that the passenger coach lost control and turned turtle because it was over-speeding,” Geo News said, without giving details of the exact nature of the accident.
Fatal road accidents are common in Pakistan, where traffic rules are rarely enforced and roads in many rural areas are poor.