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QUETTA: At least 40 people were killed and eight 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, officials said.
“According to initial reports, 40 people have been killed and eight others injured in the accident,” a statement issued by the Balochistan chief minister’s aide for media and political affairs, Shahid Rind, said.
Earlier, Sherani Deputy Commissioner (DC) Wali Khan Kakar confirmed the location and other details of the incident to Dawn, saying that the bus left Quetta with 36 passengers, but more people from another broken-down bus boarded it midway.
The DC said rescue teams from the district administration and ambulances reached the site of the accident “immediately” after the incident.
