According to reports, forty people were killed when a bus fell from a roadway into a ravine in southwest Pakistan.
The chief of Zhob district’s emergency center, Sanaullah Sherani, told the AFP news agency on Friday that “a passenger bus travelling from Quetta to Peshawar plunged into a deep ravine in the mountainous Dhana Sar area.” Sherani continued, “The bus fell about 70 to 80 feet (21 to 24 meters) into the ravine.”
A spokesman for the government of Balochistan, Shahid Rind, told The Associated Press that the speeding bus lost control early on Friday and plunged into the steep ravine in a remote area close to the boundary between the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
Forty individuals were killed, according to both officials. There were at least eight more injuries. According to Rind, the bus was going from Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, to Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He noted that the bus was packed since it was transporting both its own passengers and those from another bus that had broken down.
Mohamed Nasir, a police official, told the DPA news agency that speeding was probably the cause of the collision, but an inquiry had been started to find out the precise cause.
News agencies said that rescue personnel from the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan were present. A spokeswoman for the rescue agency, Fazal Din, stated that DPA teams were removing remains and injured individuals from the bus using equipment and cutters. Officials stated that they are attempting to identify the crash victims.
Asif Ali Zardari, the president of Pakistan, expressed sadness over the collision, sending his sympathies to the families of the dead and wishing the injured a quick recovery.
Due to poor traffic enforcement regulations, speeding, inadequate road safety standards, and careless driving, traffic accidents are common in Pakistan.
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