MUZAFFARGARH: Four people were killed and three others suffered injuries in a bus-rickshaw collision here on Thursday at Chowk Sarwar Shaheed, some 60 kilometres away from the city area.

The Muzaffargarh rescue control room received a call that there was a collision between a coach [bus] and a rickshaw due to which four people were killed and and three injured. The control room sent an ambulance from Central Station Kot Addu and another from from Chowk Sarwar Shaheed to the spot.

Eyewitnesses told the rescuers that the collision took place due to speeding. The rescuers shifted the injured to Nishtar hospital. The bodies were handed over to the families after legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, April 21st, 2023

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