14 killed in highway tragedy near Uthal
At least fourteen people, including 10 members of a single-family; killed and 12 others injured in a road accident near the Uthal area of Lasbela district.
Police said that a passenger coach, which was going from Panjgur to Karachi; overturned at a sharp turn at the Quetta-Karachi highway at around 2 am.
Police official Malik Abdul Jabbar told that eight people died on the spot and six during treatment at a hospital in Uthal.
Soon after receiving information about the incident, personnel of the police and FC rushed to the area. They shifted the bodies and the injured to the hospital.
The official said 12 injured passengers admitted to the hospital for treatment. The condition of the four injured stated to be serious and they later shifted to a hospital in Karachi.
According to sources, a local leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam in Khudabadan Sarawan, Ulfat Baloch, along with nine other members of his family, including women and children, was also traveling in the ill-fated passenger coach. They all died in the incident.
