Eight members of a household, together with ladies and youngsters, died after their Pagorai-bound mini jeep fell right into a hundred-foot-deep ravine in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Shangla district on Monday, officers mentioned.
Shangla District Police Officer Imran Khan and Rescue 1122 spokesperson Rasool Khan Sharif confirmed the deadly accident and deaths.
Sharif instructed Daybreak.com that 4 ladies and three kids had been among the many deceased and the our bodies had been moved to the district headquarters hospital in Alpuri.
He mentioned that the unlucky household was returning residence after visiting a relative in Belay Baba when the accident came about which resulted within the deaths of seven whereas a toddler succumbed to his accidents on the best way to the hospital.
Sharif mentioned the our bodies could be handed over to their family after the medico-legal process on the hospital.
Such incidents are frequent within the northern areas of Pakistan.
Three ladies and a lady had been killed whereas seven others had been injured when a automobile plunged right into a deep ravine within the Tank district a day in the past.
Earlier this month, 14 members of a household had been killed and one other 9 injured when the truck they had been travelling in fell right into a ditch close to Khushab
In a separate incident, at the least 21 passengers, including three ladies, had been killed and 21 others injured when a Hunza-bound bus plunged right into a ravine alongside the Indus River close to Chilas on Might 3.