12 die, 19 hurt in Balochistan road accidents

QUETTA: As many as 12 people were killed, including five who were burnt alive, in three road accidents in Sibi, Noshki and Washuk districts on Tuesday. As many as 19 others were injured.

Officials said that a tragic incident took place in the Nag area of Washuk district when a vehicle carrying smuggled Iranian petrol collided head-on with another vehicle and caught fire, engulfing both vehicles. Five people travelling in the vehicles got trapped in the huge fire and could not be rescued. “There was no fire brigade which led to the tragedy. As a result, all the five present inside the vehicles were burnt alive,” the assistant commissioner Washuk said, adding that the bodies were beyond identification. He said they were shifted to a nearby health facility.

In another accident, five passengers were killed and 13 others injured when a Jacobabad-bound passenger van collided with a truck on the Quetta-Sibi Highway near the Mithri area of Sibi district. The condition of two injured is stated to be serious. Levies said that the cause of the incident was over over-speeding by both vehicles. The van was coming from Quetta while the truck was coming from the opposite side. Soon after the incident, Levies and FC personnel rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to district hospital Sibi.

Two more people, including a woman, were killed in the Daak area of Noshki district where a vehicle carrying a wedding party overturned, resulting in the death of a man and a woman on the spot while 6 other people received injuries and were shifted to district hospital Noshki.