Pakistan Accident
Pakistan: 10 die as passenger bus falls onto bank of River Jhelum
Islamabad: At least people died as a passenger bus, which was travelling on a dilapidated stretch of road, fell hundreds of feet down onto the bank of River Jhelum during the early hours of Saturday, media reports said.
The mishap left 15 others injured.
The accident took place near Zaminabad village, some 24 kilometres south of Muzaffarabad, on Muzaffarabad-Kohala road, at around 2:30am, Muhammad Qadeer, an official posted at the nearest Chattar Klass Police Station told Dawn by telephone.
The bus was carrying 25 people.
The bus had left Rawalpindi for Chakothi when the mishap occurred.
“Someone who heard the loud noise caused by the accident called Rescue 15 in Muzaffarabad and they alerted us about the unfortunate incident,” Qadeer told Dawn News, adding that the entire staff of his police station, as well as policemen posted in Kohala, had rushed to the site of the accident to carry out rescue operations.
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