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Sukkur: At least 11 people have died and four others sustained injuries after a passenger van overturned at Sangi area in Sukkur district of the Sindh province on Sunday.
According to rescue sources, at least 11 people have so far succumbed to their injuries after a passenger van overturned including women and children.
“The van was coming from Lahore to Karachi when it overturned near Sangi area in Sukkur,” they said adding that the deceased included six children and three women. The bodies and injured have been shifted to a Pano Aqil hospital for medico-legal formalities and treatment respectively.
It is pertinent to mention
here that accidents have occurred frequently on highways linking different cities owing to over speeding or negligence from drivers.
In one such incident on M9 motorway, an ill-fated passenger van, carrying 22 passengers, coming to Karachi from Hyderabad overturned near the cerement factory at the motorway and caught the fire. At least 17 people onboard the vehicle died in the accident. The accident occurred after a bonnet of a vehicle hit the ill-fated passenger van, causing it to crash and later catch fire.
A CCTV footage from the Karachi toll plaza showed the bonnet-less vehicle entering Karachi premises. It was later spotted near NIPA Chowrangi in the city. The injured driver of the Karachi bound passenger van claimed that a door-type object hit the tires of the van.
