Three die as bus falls into ravine in Bahawalpur
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As many as three people were killed while 17 others were injured when driver of a speeding bus, heading from Islamabad to Karachi, lost control over the vehicle and the bus fell into a trench in Bahawalpur, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Tuesday.
Rescue sources told 24News TV channel that the deceased, a woman and two men, could not be identified as yet.
They informed that most of the passengers belonged to Haripur, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Murree; two to Karachi and one to Multan.
The sources further said that the injured passengers were shifted to Bahawalpur’s Victoria Hospital where four of them were in a critical condition.
Among the injured, they disclosed, five were females.
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Reporters: Tahir Joeya and Kamran Korai