Daily Times

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 Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) Mohammad Younis Chandio confirmed the death toll while talking to media. The injured, he said, were being treated at the People’s University of Medical and Health Sciences. According to the DIGP, the accident took place on Daur Bandhi Road a little after 4am Sunday when two passenger buses – coming from Karachi and Peshawar – collided with each other. Chandio said the collision occurred because of the high speed of the vehicles. He added that the Mehran Highway was closed for traffic after the accident and vehicles were diverted towards 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”.