A coach carrying passengers from Punjab to Karachi ran into a trailer loaded with heavy concrete girders on the National Highway near Tando Masti, in Khairpur District, early on Sunday. Eleven people died.
Nine of the dead were passengers. The other two were the coach’s driver and its conductor, rescue sources told Geo News. Reports put the number of injured at ten.
The Edhi Foundation said the bodies were taken to Khairpur Civil Hospital, where the injured were also being treated.
Police orders
The Sindh Inspector General of Police told the SSP of Khairpur to get to the scene at once and take charge of rescue work. He also ordered officers to run relief activities in nearby areas and to keep routes clear so the wounded could reach hospitals without delay.
Second deadly crash in days
It was the second serious road disaster in Sindh within three days. On Friday, a multi-vehicle pile-up near Kathore on the M9 Motorway killed at least 14 people and injured several more. An oil tanker, a bus and other vehicles were involved, and rescue officials said the dead included women and children. The force of the collision threw several passengers off a bridge.
Police said the coach in that crash was on the wrong side of the road. A first information report was lodged at Gadap police station on behalf of the state, covering culpable homicide, negligent and reckless driving and other sections.
The report puts the time at around 3:40pm, when an oil tanker lost control and hit a trailer and another vehicle. The bus and a vehicle coming from the opposite direction then overturned. The tanker driver died on the spot, it says, as did the drivers and passengers of the other vehicles.
