The bus was traveling too fast when it crashed into a pillar on the side of the bridge in Baluchistan province, an official told the Associated Press.
Forty people were killed when a passenger bus fell into a ravine and burst into flames in southern Pakistan on Sunday, a government official said.
The vehicle was carrying 44 passengers when it crashed through a bridge barrier near the town of Bela in Pakistan’s Lasbela district,“The accident happened due to over-speeding and the bus crashed into the pillar of a bridge. It caught fire soon after falling into the ravine,” Hamza Anjum Nadeem, assistant commissioner in Bela, said, according to the AP.
He said four injured passengers were rescued. There was no information immediately available on the identities of the survivors or how they were able to make it through the crash. Bodies, including those of women and children, were charred beyond recognition after their recovery from the crash site, Nadeem said. Their remains will be transported to Karachi for DNA sampling and identification, after which he said they would be returned to their families.The bus crashed on its way from Quetta in the Baluchistan province to Karachi in the neighboring Sindh province, Nadeem said.
Photos show what appeared to be the vehicle’s charred chassis lying on the bed of a gorge as ambulance workers transported the bodies of victims.In November, a van crashed during floods in Pakistan’s south, killing 20 people in Sindh province on Indus Highway, the
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