ISLAMABAD — At least 40 people were killed and 8 others injured after a passenger bus plunged into a deep ravine in the Sherani district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province on Friday, officials told Xinhua.
Assistant to the Balochistan Chief Minister for Political and Media Affairs, Shahid Rind, said that the death toll rose after several of the passengers succumbed to their injuries while being transported to hospitals and undergoing treatment.
Earlier, Deputy Commissioner of the district, Hazrat Wali Kakar, told Xinhua News Agency that the accident occurred on the Zhob-Sherani Highway in the Dhana Sar area of Sherani, near the border between Sherani district in Balochistan and Dera Ismail Khan district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Police and rescue teams from both districts rushed to the site and transported the bodies and the injured to nearby hospitals, including women and children.
According to a rescue official, the accident occurred in difficult mountainous terrain and rescue teams took more than two hours to reach the site.
