ATTOCK, Dec 30: Four army personnel were killed and five others seriously injured in a road accident on Kohat-Pindi road near Pindsultani village on Thursday.

Police said an army ambulance was on way to Rawalpindi from Kohat when it skidded off the slippery road during rain at Sukah bridge and fell into a ravine.

As a result, the occupants of the vehicle sustained serious injuries and were taken to the tehsil headquarters hospital in Jand.

SHO Basal police station Mohammad Khan told this correspondent that three of the injured - Abdul Waheed, Qamar Abbas and Shah Mir - died soon after they were brought to the hospital while the fourth identified as Ehsan succumbed to injuries while being shifted to Rawalpindi.

He said the others namely Abdullah Bilal, Mohammad Fayaz, Zahid, Naveed Anjum and Aleem were shifted to CMH Kohat.