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Published 12 Oct, 2015 06:02am

Two professors killed in Khuzdar accident

KHUZDAR: Two professors and a hostel warden of the Balochistan Residential College, Khuzdar, were killed and three others injured in a road accident on Sunday.

Levies officials said that a college team was going to Quetta from Khuzdar when their car collided with ano-ther car coming from the opposite direction and overturned. The accident occu-rred at a sharp turn on the National Highway in Sam-ban area, 29km from Khuzdar.

Prof Hanif Baloch, Prof Mehrullah Mengal alias Meera Jee and hostel warden Naseer Ahmed Mosyani were killed on the spot, the sources said. The car wreckage had to be cut to retrieve the bodies. Lecturer Naveed Ahmed and two women travelling in the other car were injured.

Personnel of the Levies Force and the Frontier Corps took the bodies and the injured to a Khuzdar hospital. The bodies were handed over to relatives after legal formalities.

Prof Baloch belonged to Kech and Prof Mengal and Mr Mosyani hailed from Khuzdar district.

Published in Dawn, October 12th, 2015

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