The accident occurred when the jeep, carrying 35 passengers, was going to Kandia from Bagru of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Nearly 24 people, including women and children, were died when a bus carrying them fell in a ditch in northwest Pakistan, police sources said. “All 24 people belonging to the same tribe drowned when a bridge collapsed and the jeep they were travelling in plunged into a stream,” Ahsanul Haq, the chief civil defence warden said.
“All 24 people belonging to the same tribe drowned when a bridge collapsed and the jeep they were travelling in plunged into a stream,” Ahsanul Haq, the chief civil defence warden said. District police chief of Upper Kohistan Raja Abdul Saboor said: “The police and rescue teams rushed to the spot to retrieve the bodies.” “It is a rugged mountainous area with no communication facilities and the people engaged in rescue activities are facing difficulties because of darkness.”
Nearly 24 died in accident at northwest Pakistan
