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10 burnt alive in 2 road accidents in Sindh

By Our Correspondent
April 20, 2018

SUKKUR: As many as 10 people, including a woman and three infants, were burnt in two separate tragic road accidents here on Thursday.

Four people, including a woman and two infants, were burnt and killed and 15 others sustained injuries when a passenger wagon caught fire following an explosion in the CNG cylinder. The villagers of the Khuda Bakhash Maitlo of Khairpur had hired a wagon to visit the shrine of Sehwan Sharif. As the wagon reached Lal Bakhash Kandhro village near Gambat, the CNG cylinder exploded and a massive fire engulfed the wagon.

In another tragic accident, six people including two girls were burnt, when a massive fire engulfed two vehicles following their collision at Loni Fort in Thana Bola Khan, Jamshoro. According to the Motorway Police a Pajero jeep and a car collided which led to blowing up of the CNG cylinder that destroyed the vehicles. Six bodies including that of an infant were removed from the wreckage of the vehicles, while an infant was found alive. They were shifted to Jamshoro Hospital, where till the filling of these lines none of the victims could be identified.