Police and rescue officers in Pakistan say a bus caught fireplace after hitting a van parked on the shoulder of an intercity freeway in japanese Punjab province, killing a minimum of 18 folks and injuring 13 others
On this picture launched by the Rescue 1122 Emergency Division, rescue employees look at a burnt bus on the accident website on a freeway in Pindi Bhattian, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. A bus in Pakistan caught fireplace after hitting a van parked on the shoulder of an intercity freeway in japanese Punjab province, killing a number of folks and injuring others, police and rescue officers stated Sunday. (Rescue 1122 Emergency Division vis AP)
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MULTAN, Pakistan — A bus in Pakistan caught fireplace after hitting a van parked on the shoulder of an intercity freeway in japanese Punjab province, killing a minimum of 18 folks and injuring 13 others, police and rescue officers stated Sunday.
The accident occurred early Sunday close to Pindi Bhattian, the place the Islamabad-bound bus hit a van parked on the shoulder of the Lahore-Islamabad Motorway, senior police officer Fahad Ahmed stated. The van was carrying gasoline drums, which prompted an inferno that engulfed the bus, Ahmed stated.
There have been greater than 40 passengers on the bus, Ahmed stated. Those that had been rescued had been badly burned, together with a number of in crucial situation. Different passengers had been barely injured with burns after escaping via the home windows.
The drivers of each automobiles died, police stated.
Such accidents occur often on Pakistan’s highways, the place security requirements are sometimes ignored and site visitors laws violated. Fatigued drivers additionally go to sleep behind the wheel throughout lengthy drives.
