ISLAMABAD, Feb 25 (NNN-APP) – At least 13 people were killed and over 20 others injured, in a road accident in east Pakistan’s Punjab province, early this morning, said a police official.
District Police Officer, Rizwan Umar Gondal, told local media that, the incident took place at the superhighway M-5, near the Rukanpur area of the province’s Rahim Yar Khan district.
A passenger van overturned on the superhighway, due to a tire burst, when another speeding passenger coach and a jeep rammed into it, killing 13 people on the spot, said the official.
Rescue teams and patrolling police rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to a nearby hospital.
Hospital officials feared that the death toll might rise further because several of the injured were in critical condition.
