A father and his two daughters lost their lives on Wednesday, while four others were injured after a car and a passenger coach collided near the Gambat city of Sindh’s Khairpur district, police said. Gambat Station House Officer (SHO) Rafiq Soomro confirmed the casualties and said the bodies and the injured have been shifted to the Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences (Gims).
The three individuals were heading towards Karachi in a Toyota Corolla while the coach was bound for upcountry, SHO Soomro said. He suspected that the car driver either lost control of the steering wheel or fell asleep while driving and hit the coach on the opposite road. It was unclear who was driving the car.
According to the SHO, the deceased were identified as Niaz Mohammad, a resident of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Waziristan region, and his two daughters. The accident comes just two days after four friends died in a road accident when their car fell into an irrigation channel called the Naseer canal in Sindh’s Tando Allahyar district.