Nankana Sahib, Pakistan, January 20 (ANI): At least five people, including a schoolchild, were killed and eight other children injured in two separate road accidents caused by poor visibility amid dense fog in Punjab, Dawn reported.
In the first incident on Monday, a school van and a bus collided head-on on Buchekey Road in Nankana Sahib. The crash killed the van driver, Asghar, 35, and a schoolchild, Turab Ali, 15, on the spot. Eight other students sustained injuries, according to Dawn.
The injured children were taken to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital in Nankana Sahib, where Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Tasleem Akhtar Rao visited and inquired about their condition. The DC instructed the medical superintendent to provide the best possible treatment to the injured students, and an emergency was declared at the hospital.
Three critically injured students—Ghulam Fareed, 14; Amer, 18; and Adeel, 19—were referred to a hospital in Lahore for further treatment.
In a separate incident in Sialkot, three men died when a trailer loaded with iron rods overturned due to heavy fog. According to a Rescue 1122 spokesperson, the trailer overturned near the Musapur stop on the Pasrur-Daska Road after the driver lost control because of poor visibility. The three men traveling on the trailer—Ali Raza, 25; Arshad, 40; and Afzal, 45—fell off and were trapped under the vehicle.
Rescue 1122 teams, assisted by locals, pulled the victims from under the trailer and administered first aid at the scene. However, all three succumbed to their injuries. Local police arrived at the site, and the rescue team completed legal formalities before transferring the bodies to a government hospital.
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