QUETTA: Nine people, including a police officer, died and two others sustained injuries when a passenger coach collided with two pickup vehicles near Faqeera Stop in Uthal, Lasbela district, on Friday.
Rescue officials said they shifted the bodies and injured to Civil Hospitals in Uthal and Bela. They said overspeeding caused the accident.
The passenger coach was traveling from Quetta to Karachi, while the pickups were en route from Karachi to Khuzdar. The policemen who died and were injured had been traveling in one of the pickups from Uthal to Bela.
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Rescue teams said they responded immediately but confirmed the collision’s intensity caused heavy casualties.