DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Four Frontier Corps personnel and two civilians lost their lives and 22 others suffered injuries in a three-vehicle pile-up in the Nasirabad area of tehsil Draban here on Sunday.

A passenger bus carrying FC South recruits from Baluchistan’s Khuzdar area to Rawalpindi collided with an army truck which hit another vehicle in Nasirabad.

As a result four FC personnel, identified as Taj Gul, Abdurb Razzaq, Arsalan and Khushnood, and two passengers Wali Hayat and Muhammad Junaid died on the spot.

About 22 people, including FC personnel, were injured.

Published in Dawn, August 13th, 2018

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