Guadal/Queda: Women and children were killed in twelve people including women and children in three separate road accidents in Panjigur on Saturday and injured in Pajigur, Paisin and Rasbela areas on Saturday.
Officials said the first incident occurred in Pajigur when a passenger coach collided with a mini truck carrying Iranian cross-country gasoline on the CPEC highway, about 14 kilometers from the town of Panjigur.
A senior tax official told: “The passenger coach from Karachi is heading to Panjigur. dawn. The collision caused the coach and the gasoline-carrying truck to catch fire, engulfing the vehicle.
The fire bidding was sent from Panjgur, but by the time of arrival, the fire had consumed the vehicles. “Six passengers and six passengers traveling with small trucks were unable to be rescued and burned to death,” said an official from the district government. One of them was a passerby who caught fire when the vehicle collided.
The rescue team and tax team arrived at the scene, but it took nearly four hours to blend the fire. The body was retrieved from the wreckage and transferred along with the two injured to the government teaching hospital in Panjigur. The injured were later moved to Karachi.
The coach’s late passenger, all residents of the Kuzdal area, was identified as Jamil Ahmed, Inayatullah, Adeel, Alam, Alam, Salman and Amir. The two late in the mini truck were identified as Abdul Razzaq and Fahad.
In another accident, when 25 people, including children and children, were injured, the passenger coach who combined Quetta was overthrown near the Kanoze area in the Pishin area due to speculation, and Islamabad was overthrown.
Assistant Commissioner Karizat said the accident happened when the coach lost control and overturned. The tax force rescue team arrived at the scene, recovered the body and was injured, and transferred it to a nearby medical facility.
“We injured four bodies and 25 people in the hospital,” a hospital official said, adding that it was crucial that five people be injured. They were referred to the civil hospital in Quetta because they suffered serious injuries.
In another incident on the Makran coastal highway near Lyari, more than 15 Indian pilgrims traveling from Karachi to Hinglaj Nani Mandir were injured when they were overthrown by weaving.
Women and children are injured. They were initially treated at the regional headquarters hospital in Utar, and their serious injuries were later transferred to Karachi.
Posted in Dawn on September 28, 2025
