18 killed in Pakistan as trailer lorry rams into parked bus

The collision took place in Hala area of Hyderabad district. The train was parked along a inhabitant highway to change a deflated tyre when a trailer lorry rammed into it from behind, a military said

18 killed in Pakistan as trailer lorry rams into parked bus

At slightest 18 people returning from a marriage duty were killed when a speeding trailer lorry rammed into a parked train in Pakistan’s southern Sindh range early today, military and rescue officials said. Another 30 people suffered injuries and have been hospitalised, they said.

The collision took place in Hala area of Hyderabad district. The train was parked along a inhabitant highway to change a deflated tyre when a trailer lorry rammed into it from behind, a military said. The military pronounced 18 people were killed in a accident. The victims were all residents of Hyderabad and were returning from Sakrand, where they had left to attend a wedding, officials said.

Officials during a Edhi ambulance use pronounced that they shifted 30 harmed to Hala and Hyderabad polite hospitals. Six people were critically injured. “The impact was so clever that it killed 15 people on a spot, including 5 members of a same family,” an central of a Edhi Trust said.

“The sum casualties are now 18, while 11 have been severely harmed and rushed to a sanatorium in Hyderabad,” he said. The central pronounced that it took some time for a rescue teams and military to transparent a badly shop-worn train and mislay a bodies before rushing a harmed to hospital.

According to reports, cranes were being used to lift a mutilate as rescue officials feared some-more people could be trapped underneath it. Road accidents are common in Pakistan. Most of them are caused due to forward driving, bad roads and deficiency of law crew to check over-speeding.

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