29 dead, 1 injured as bus from Kahuta to Rawalpindi plunges into ditch: rescue official

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29 dead, 1 injured as bus from Kahuta to Rawalpindi plunges into ditch: rescue official​

Tahir Naseer
August 25, 2024

— DawnNewsTv

At least 29 passengers were killed and one was left injured on Sunday when a coaster traveling from Kahuta to Rawalpindi fell into a ditch, a rescue official confirmed.

“The accident was caused due to the coaster’s failed brakes,” Rescue 1122 Punjab official Usman Gujjar said.

The bodies have been shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Kahuta, he said, adding that 26 passengers were on board.

The victims, he added, included 20 men, four women, and a child.

“The tragic accident occurred on the Girari Bridge of Kahuta’s Azad Pattan Road,” the official further stated.

The interior ministry, however, said 29 passengers had died in that crash.

Source:
https://www.dawn.com/news/1854623/2...rawalpindi-plunges-into-ditch-rescue-official

 

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11 dead, 35 injured as bus overturns on Makran coastal highway​

The bus was carrying pilgrims from Iran to Punjab when the accident occurred in Hub, Balochistan.

It urged pilgrims to avoid any unnecessary travel at this point.

Earlier this week, 28 Pakistani pilgrims were killed and 23 others injured when their bus crashed in Iran’s Yazd city, Pakistan’s envoy to Tehran had confirmed.

According to Iran’s Mehr Agency, the bus overturned at the Dehshir-Taftan checkpoint in Yazd on Tuesday night and then caught fire.