The motive force misplaced management at excessive pace, veering off a bridge into the icy Indus river in northern Pakistan, in keeping with native stories.
No less than 14 folks have been confirmed killed and lots of extra lacking and presumed useless after a bus crashed into the Indus river in northern Pakistan, in keeping with native authorities.
The motive force misplaced management of the automobile when travelling at excessive pace, in keeping with a press release from authorities within the Gilgit Baltistan area, the place the accident occurred on Tuesday.
The bus was carrying round two dozen folks, members of a marriage procession, in keeping with native media. The variety of fatalities has not been confirmed, with some stories putting the determine as excessive as 26.
Rescue crews have already recovered 13 our bodies from the river, whereas 12 passengers stay lacking and are presumed to haven’t survived the accident as a consequence of freezing temperatures within the space, in keeping with the Pakistani information outlet Daybreak.
The bride survived the accident and was taken to hospital, however later succumbed to her accidents, Daybreak stories.
The bus was heading in the direction of Chakwal, a metropolis in Pakistan’s Punjab province, when it careened off the street and into the river from Telchi bridge within the Diamer district at about 1pm native time (08:00 GMT), in keeping with native broadcaster Geo.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari expressed his “deep grief over the lack of valuable lives within the accident” in a put up on social media platform X.
He additionally emphasised the “want to hurry up” search and rescue operations for these but to be discovered.
Deadly street accidents are frequent in Pakistan, with 9,000 incidents reported on the nation’s roads on common every year, leading to greater than 5,000 deaths, in keeping with the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Twenty-nine passengers were killed on August 25 when a automobile fell right into a ravine close to Rawlakot, a metropolis in Pakistan-administered Kashmir within the nation’s north.
The identical day, in southwest Pakistan’s Lasbella district in Balochistan province, 11 folks had been killed when a bus additionally fell right into a ravine.
