SKARDU, April 23: Seven people, two of them women, were killed and 15 others injured when a coaster plunged into a ditch in Battagram on Wednesday.

Sources said the passenger coaster was going to Skardu from Islamabad when it fell into the ravine because of rain.

Those killed were identified as Sipahi Maqsood of Punjab, and Lance Naik Ghulam Abbas, Mohammad Zahid, Mohammad Riaz, Hussain, Asif and Haider of Baltistan.

The injured were taken to a Battagram hospital. Two of them were shifted to an Abbottabad hospital because of their critical condition.

FIVE DIE IN MANSEHRA: Five people were killed when a pickup fell into a deep ravine in the Pattan area on Wednesday.

The pickup was going from Peshawar to Gilgit when it met the accident.

The Pattan police and local people retrieved the bodies and handed them over to their relatives.

Meanwhile, some armed men opened indiscriminate fire and killed two women of a rival group over a family dispute in the Tanawal area of the Mansehra district on Wednesday.

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