Six killed, 30 injured as bus overturned in Hyderabad
July 04, 2017
HYDERABAD: Six people were killed while 30 others were injured when a bus overturned Tuesday morning near the National Highway in Hyderabad.
The incident took place when the driver of the passenger vehicle lost control of the steering due to speeding. Subsequently, the vehicle turned over, killing six people on the spot. The injured were shifted to the nearby civil hospital.
The vehicle was en route from Bahawalpur to Karachi.
Rail and road accidents are a common occurrence across Pakistan.
A few weeks back, two road accidents in Punjab claimed eight lives.
In the first incident, a passenger van travelling to Murree from Lahore collided with a speeding car, resulting in the death of two women identified as Noreen and Sidra and three children, identified as Hamza, Hadia and Wasiq.
The second accident occurred in Shahkot, Nanakana Sahib when a vehicle travelling to Faisalabad from Jaranwala caught fire due to an alleged CNG cylinder leak.
Two women and a child died as a result of the fire.
