DADU: Six people were killed and five others injured in a road accident here late on Monday night.

Sources said that a passenger van collided with a tractor trolley coming from the opposite direction at Johi More on the Indus Highway.

Local people took the injured and the bodies to the civil hospital in Dadu.

The victims travelling in the van were relatives and hailed from Omer Faqir village near the Chhandan More area of Dadu district.

The deceased were identified as Rafique, Rahib, Pervez, Hawa, Amnat and two-year-old Tahiran.

Published in Dawn, July 11th, 2017

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