At least 24 killed as passenger bus falls into ravine near Balochistan-KP border: official

QUETTA: At least 24 people were killed and several others injured when a Peshawar-bound passenger bus fell into a ravine just as it left the Dana Sar area of Balochistan’s Sherani district and crossed the provincial border into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan on Friday, according to an official.

Sherani Deputy Commissioner (DC) Wali Khan Kakar confirmed these details to Dawn, saying that rescue teams from the district administration and ambulances reached the site of the accident “immediately” after the incident.

Rescue efforts were ongoing, he said.

The DC said the bus left Quetta with 36 passengers, but more people boarded it midway from another bus that had broken down.

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