Nine people were killed and 11 others injured when a large truck ran over pedestrians and other vehicles at Karak in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, a rescue official said. sunrise.com.
According to Rescue 1122 spokesperson Asif Khattak, the incident occurred at Amberi Kalay Chowk on the Karak Indus Highway when a truck traveling at high speed collided with a crowd of pedestrians and other vehicles due to brake failure.
“Nine people were killed and 11 others were injured,” Khattak said. sunrise.com. “A 1122 rescue team transported the victims to the Karak district central hospital.”
Informed hospital administration dawn.com that the injured are being treated at the DHQ hospital, while six people in critical condition have been referred to Peshawar.
According to the hospital administration, the dead included a woman and a four-year-old child.
In March last year, at least eight passengers, including women and children, died after a van fell into a gorge in Buner in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Rescue 1122 spokesperson Niaz Muhammad Khan said. dawn.com that the van was traveling from the Sawari area of Buner to Shangrai Kandao when it suffered the fatal accident.
He said it appeared that either the driver lost control of the steering wheel or there was a technical fault in the truck, causing the vehicle to fall into a 1,600-foot-deep gorge from the poor, dilapidated road.
