KHAIRPUR - A head-on collision between two buses claimed at least 18 lives and injured 41 at National Highway in the limits of Hingorja police station on Sunday. According to police report, a passenger coach (GB-374) was going to Karachi. When it reached near Pir Lashari between Sukkur-Khairpur, the driver tried to over take a truck but it collided with another passenger coach (LXCC-595) which was coming from opposite direction. As a result ten passengers were killed on the spot while seven other expired in Ranipur, Gambat and Khairpur hospitals where they were shifted for treatment. Eight serious injured have been shifted to Karachi. The area police is investigating the case. The coaches were completely destroyed while the dead bodies were sent to their native places.