All bodies badly mutilated; DNA testing to be done for identification.
At least 44 burned alive in ghastly bus accident in Lasbela. The death toll of the ghastly bus accident in Lasbela has reportedly risen to 44 as the said number of bodies were recovered from the ill-fated bus that careened into a ravine near Chinki stop in the Bela area of the Lasbela district this morning.
Apart from the deaths, four people were taken out of the bus alive but injured by the completion of rescue operation at the site of the accident.
The passenger bus with at least 48 on board was on its way to Karachi from Quetta when it fell into a ravine and caught fire in the early hours of Sunday.
Bela Assistant Commissioner Hamza Anjum Nadeem said that the rescue operation had been completed.
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Sharing the number of people on board the bus and casualties, Nadeem said that 40 bodies were taken out of the wrecked bus. He said that the bodies were unidentifiable. He said that DNA testing will be done for the identification of the deceased, while the injured passengers were being shifted to Civil Hospital, Lasbela.
Earlier, Nadeem said that the rescue workers initially faced obstacles as it was dark in the morning due to the cold weather.
Meanwhile, the police said that the accident happened due to speeding as the bus went out of the driver’s control and was careened into the ravine. They said that teams of the fire brigade, rescue services and law-enforcement agencies’ personnel arrived at the site of the accident and launched a rescue operation.
Efforts to completely douse the blaze were underway, they added.
Mansehra accident
In a similar incident earlier this month, a five-month-old child was killed while 16 other passengers sustained injuries when a Muzaffarabad-bound bus plunged into a ravine in the Batrasi area in Mansehra.
SHO Garhi Habibullah had said the police, with the help of Rescue 1122 personnel, shifted the injured to a nearby hospital where the condition of five was stated to be critical.
Over 10 children die as boat sinks off in Kohat’s Tanda Dam
A boat carrying over two dozen sightseers sank off in Kohat’s Tanda Dam, leaving 11 children dead after they drowned, a private news channel reported on Sunday.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kohat Furqan Ashraf confirmed the tragic incident and said that the boat was carrying as many as 30 people and most of them were children.
As per the rescue sources, most of the people who were killed were kids.
DC Ashraf said that a team of divers has been called from Peshawar that will reach the spot in one to two hours.
He added that about 16 children who drowned were taken to the hospital while 11 have died.
The deputy commissioner also said that Pakistan Army’s rescue teams have also reached the site of the incident where relief operations are being carried out.
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