At least seven people died and 42 sustained injuries in a head-on collision between two passenger coaches on the Mehran Highway near Nawabshah in Sindh on Sunday, officials said.
Benazirabad’s Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) Mohammad Younis Chandio has confirmed the death toll, according to Dawn News. He stated that the People’s University of Medical and Health Sciences was providing care for the injured.
The accident, which involved two passenger buses from Peshawar and Karachi, happened on Daur Bandhi Road shortly after 4 a.m. today, according to the DIGP.
Chandio claimed that the vehicles’ high speeds were to blame for the crash.
He further said that following the collision, traffic on the Mehran Highway was stopped and directed to the National Highway.
Earlier this month, at least 13 people, including five women, were killed and 31 others injured when a bus veered off the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway and overturned near Kallar Kahar.
The accident, police had said, occurred after the driver lost control over the steering apparently due to a “brake failure”.
In April, nine people were killed when a truck collided head-on with a mini-van near the Keenjhar Lake in Sindh’s Thatta district.
