RAWALPINDI: At least 14 members of a wedding party, including women and children, were killed and 46 injured on Sunday, after their bus overturned on the Lahore-Islamabad motorway near Kallar Kahar.

The bus hit two other cars and a truck on the opposite track. According to police, the wedding party was going back to Lahore from Islamabad when their bus veered off the road apparently due to a tyre burst.

A police official told Dawn that a rescue operation was underway and the injured were being pulled out of the damaged vehicles and shifted to different hospitals in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

Police and rescue teams arrived at the scene shortly after the accident, according to the official. The rescue operation was continuing till late into the night.

Published in Dawn, February 20th, 2023