Forbes StaffRescue operations are on at the site where a bus fell into a gorge on Sunday near Kahuta, Pakistan.
Two brutal bus accidents made headlines all over about two separate bus crashes in Pakistan on Sunday. One accident, where a bus fell into a gorge, has left at least 36 people dead while injuring dozens of others, as per officials.
Two separate bus crashes in Pakistan.
Officials said that two separate bus crashes happened in Pakistan, which led to the death of 36 and injured many others. The first bus crash happened when a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims returning from Iraq through Iran fell from a highway into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 32 people, as told by the police and the officials. The driver lost control when the brakes failed while passing through the Lasbela district in Baluchistan province on the Makran coastal highway, said local police chief Qazi Sabir. Baluchistan authorities said that arrangements were made to send the pilgrims’ bodies to Punjab province for burial.
Another bus crash in Pakistan.
Another such brutal bus crash happened 24 hours later that killed 24 people when a bus fell into a ravine in the Kahuta district of the eastern Punjab province, as told by the police and officials. This includes two women and a child. A senior government official in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Omar Farooq, said there were no survivors. Initially, the local police claimed that seven were injured, but later, doctors and government officials said that no one onboard the bus survived the crash.
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in separate statements, offered their condolences and expressed sorrow for the ones who lost their lives in the two crashes.
