Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: At least seven passengers, including two students, lost their lives in two different road accidents in Gujrat and Takht Bhai due to fog on Wednesday morning. Gujrat is in Pakistani Punjab and Takht Bhai is a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), a province bordering Afghanistan.
All these accidents are reported due to less visibility on the roads during the fog prevailing in most parts of Punjab and KP due to the winter season. Fog appears normally near water sources, like canals and rivers.
In the Gujrat accident, five people died when a truck went out of control on the GT Road and crushed a motorcycle rickshaw on Service Road near Sabzi Mandi. All five passengers on board the Qinqi (Ching-chi) rickshaw died on the spot. Rescue 1122 personnel shifted the bodies to Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital.
Students die in Takht Bhai accident
On Wednesday morning, two students were crushed to death by a trawler near Assar Qadeema Chowk on Malakand Road in Takht Bhai. The two students who were riding the motorcycle died on the spot. They have been identified as 17-year-old Shadab and 18-year-old Talha, residents of the Public Park. Rescue personnel shifted bodies to the THQ Hospital.
Bus escapes a disaster in Narowal
The bus carrying more than 80 passengers hit Jastar Bridge amid thick fog on the Shakkargarh Road in Narowal on Wednesday morning. The bus narrowly escaped falling into the nullah. All the people who were traveling to Lahore from Shakkargarh remained unhurt.
