BAHAWALNAGAR
Six persons including three women, belonging to a same family, were killed while 12 sustained critical injuries in a tragic collision between a tractor-trolley and a van here in the Haroonabad Saddr Police precincts on Monday.
According to details one Waqar Jatt had died the other day and his relatives, residents of Sahiwal district, were heading for Faqirwali in a van to participate in the funeral for the deceased early Monday morning.
However, they also met a tragic fate when a timber-laden tractor-trolley collided with the van near 85 Wala Morr on Fortabbas Road in the remit Haroonabad Saddr Police. Resultantly Razia Bibi, Salma Bibi, Muhammad Hanif, Sadam Hussain and van driver Irfan died on the spot while Fatima Bibi succumbed to her injuries in Hospital. Others including Imadad Hussain, Qaiser, Kishwar, Sufyan, Rizwan, Liaquat and Abdul Hameed sustained multiple injuries and were rushed to Chishtian THQ Hospital where condition of the two injured is stated to be critical. The van driver was a resident of Iqbal Nagar, Kasowal while all passengers were from the same family of Chak 46/12L, Tehsil Chichawatni, Sahiwal. The tractor driver fled the scene, however, the Saddr Police impounded the tractor-trolley and registered a case.