Not less than 14 useless after bus plunges into Indus river in Pakistan

The motive force misplaced management at excessive pace, veering off a bridge into the icy Indus river in northern Pakistan, based on native studies.

Not less than 14 folks have been confirmed killed and lots of extra lacking and presumed useless after a bus crashed into the Indus river in northern Pakistan, based on native authorities.

The motive force misplaced management of the car when travelling at excessive pace, based on an announcement from authorities within the Gilgit Baltistan area, the place the accident occurred on Tuesday.

The bus was carrying round two dozen folks, members of a marriage procession, based on native media. The variety of fatalities has not been confirmed, with some studies putting the determine as excessive as 26.

Rescue crews have already recovered 13 our bodies from the river, whereas 12 passengers stay lacking and are presumed to haven’t survived the accident on account of freezing temperatures within the space, based on the Pakistani information outlet Daybreak.

The bride survived the accident and was taken to hospital, however later succumbed to her accidents, Daybreak studies.

The bus was heading in direction of Chakwal, a metropolis in Pakistan’s Punjab province, when it careened off the street and into the river from Telchi bridge within the Diamer district at about 1pm native time (08:00 GMT), based on native broadcaster Geo.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari expressed his “deep grief over the lack of valuable lives within the accident” in a submit on social media platform X.

He additionally emphasised the “want to hurry up” search and rescue operations for these but to be discovered.

Deadly street accidents are frequent in Pakistan, with 9,000 incidents reported on the nation’s roads on common annually, leading to greater than 5,000 deaths, based on the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

Twenty-nine passengers have been killed on August 25 when a car fell right into a ravine close to Rawlakot, a metropolis in Pakistan-administered Kashmir within the nation’s north.

The identical day, in southwest Pakistan’s Lasbella district in Balochistan province, 11 folks have been killed when a bus additionally fell right into a ravine.