MANSEHRA: Four members of a family, including a woman and her daughter, were killed and two others sustained injuries when two vehicles collided head on near Battle Tunnel here on Sunday.

“One of the six who sustained critical wounds in the accident died instantly while three others succumbed to their injuries at the health facility here,” Rescue 1122 official Amir Khadam told mediapersons.

The bus carrying passengers was on way to Karachi from Battagram via Hazara Motorway when it collided with a car near Battle Tunnel, leaving all those travelling in the car seriously injured.

The Rescue 1122 officials reached the spot and shifted the injured to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital where doctors pronounced Ahsanullah, 50, Ghazala Naeem, 25, and her six-month-old daughter and Sabia Bibi, 5, as dead. The two injured were referred to the Ayub Medical Complex Hospital, Abbottabad, where their condition was stated to be critical.

The Battle police after lodging FIR started investigation to ascertain the cause of the accident.

In Lower Dir, three persons, including two minors, were killed and 10 others mostly women and children were injured when a Babagam-bound passenger pick-up vehicle plunged into a ravine at Shagai Maidan area in the jurisdiction of Zaimdara police station here the other day. The dead were identified as Habibur Rehman, his daughter Habiba, 6, and a four-month-old Inaya.

The injured included Palwasha, 6, Basit, 2, Kaleem, 5, Atif, 4, wife of Nazir, 28, wife of Rasheed Ahmad, 27, wife of Ziaur Rehman, 21, wife of Rehmat Gul, Zakirullah, 7, and a three-month-old son of Habibur Rehman.

The Rescue 1122 team shifted the injured to the local hospitals. Police have registered the case.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2022