ISLAMABAD: At least 15 people, including a 32-year-old woman and a five-month-old baby girl, were killed and 35 others injured when a speeding bus fell into a ravine in Punjab’s Attock district on Monday, local media reported on Tuesday.
Fatal road accidents are common in Pakistan, which has one of the world’s worst records for traffic accidents. According to official figures, more than 15,000 people die in crashes in Pakistan each year, mainly because of poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving. More than 3,300 road accidents occur in Pakistan annually.
“As per details, the accident took place when the bus, trying to avoid an accident with another car, fell into the ditch near Burhan Interchange in Hasan Abdal,” Pakistan’s Express Tribune newspaper reported. “The Motorway Police and rescue officials, after receiving the information about the deadly accident, reached the site and rushed the injured to a local hospital.”
Hospital sources told local media several of the injured were in critical condition and a few had been moved to a hospital in Rawalpindi, over 50 kilometers away, for medical treatment.
