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- Lyari SHO Qadir attributes deadly accident to brake failure.
- Bodies, injured being moved to close by hospitals: SSP Lasbela.
- PM, president direct provision of medical help to wounded.
HUB/LASBELA: In one other heart-wrenching tragedy, a bus carrying pilgrims plunged right into a ditch on the Makran Coastal Highway leaving 11 lifeless and wounding greater than 30 others, police advised Geo News on Sunday.
Providing particulars of the accident, Lyari Station House Officer Qadir stated that the pilgrims — belonging to Lahore and Gujranwala, as per the police — have been travelling from Punjab to Iran when their bus met the ill-fated accident as a consequence of a brake failure.
Levies, police and different departments are finishing up a rescue operation, Lasbela Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Captain (retd) Naveed Alam stated, confirming the demise toll and accidents.
He added that the our bodies, in addition to the wounded, have been being shifted to close by hospitals.
Expressing grief over the unlucky incident, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have each issued instructions for the supply of crucial medical help for these injured within the accident.
Meanwhile, National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq conveyed his condolences and prayed for fast restoration of the wounded.
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti has additionally expressed grief over the lack of treasured lives and has directed for fast remedy of the wounded.
This is the second main bus accident as a consequence of brake failure this week. In the earlier deadly incident, 28 Pakistani pilgrims — heading to take part in Arbaeen — misplaced their lives when a bus carrying them crashed right into a wall and overturned as a consequence of dashing and brake failure close to the Taftan-Dehshir checkpoint in Iran’s Yazd metropolis.
The mortal stays of the victims have been repatriated through a particular flight on Friday.
The car, with 53 passengers on board together with 14 ladies, met with the accident on Wednesday evening. At least 10 of the victims hailed from Khairpur, six belonged to Kashmore, three have been from Karachi.
