Five killed as vehicle skids off road

Author: By Our Correspondent

MANSEHRA: Five persons, including a couple, were killed when a vehicle skidded off the road and fell into the Indus River in Pattan area of Lower Kohistan on Thursday.

“The body of a woman has been recovered while the search for others is in progress,” Alam Khan, head of the local police control room, told reporters.

The car was carrying passengers from Gilgit to Rawalpindi. Those who drowned were identified as Mian Arsalan, said to be a driver and belonging to Taxila, Ramazan and his wife Bibi, Waseemul Haq and Farman Ali, residents of Gilgit. People rushed and managed to fish out the body of Bibi.

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