A speeding bus collided with a car and plunged into a ravine in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 22 passengers and injuring 12 others, police said, the second such deadly crash in less than a year. week.
The bus was traveling to the garrison town of Rawalpindi from the northern Ghizer district when the accident occurred near the village of Shatial, 30 miles north of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Dildar Khan, chief of area police.
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A collision in Pakistan between two vehicles left 22 dead and 12 injured on Tuesday. Pakistan has frequent traffic accidents due to poor infrastructure. (FoxNews)
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He said rescuers have taken the dead and injured to a hospital, where some of them are in critical condition.
Last Friday, 17 people were killed in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a speeding truck near a tunnel in Pakistan’s northwestern Kohat district. On January 29, another deadly accident occurred in southern Pakistan, where a bus crashed into a pillar and fell off a bridge, killing 40 people.
Fatal accidents are common in Pakistan due to poor road infrastructure and non-compliance with traffic laws.
