/Agencies MUZAFFARABAD/FAISAL ABAD/HAFIZABAD-Seven persons including four women were killed and two dozen got multiple in various incidents occurred in different areas here on Tuesday.
In Muzaffarabad, two women were killed and six others including a driver sustained injuries in traffic accident near Sehri Kot here on Tuesday.
The accident when a jeep MDRA-8531, going to Sehri Kot from Gari Dupatta, plunged into a ravine near Sehri Kot area. Resultantly, two persons dead and six others injured.
The injured were rushed to local hospital in Gari Dupatta.
In Faisalabad, a woman died and four persons were injured when roof of an under-construction house caved-in here on Tuesday.
The incident occurred near Novelty Bridge where work was underway on third storey of a building. The roof collapsed due to burden of construction material as a result of which the bottom two floors also collapsed. Two workers, a woman and her two daughters were trapped under the debris.
The workers and girls were recovered from the rubble and shifted to Civil Hospital. However; the woman identified as Najma died while being evacuated after 40 minutes.
In Hafizabad, a couple was killed and three others including two women got seriously injured in a road accident near Pindi Bhattian Motorway Interchange.
According to Motorway Police sources, Shahid Hussain along with his wife Kalsoom Begum and three others was proceeding towards Lahore in a car. As they reached near Pindi Bhattian Interchange, Shahid lost control over the steering as a result the vehicle overturned, causing instantaneous death of the couple while Sobia, Fozia and Zahid Iqbal sustained critical injuries. They were shifted to THQ hospital Pindi Bhattian. According to police, the accident occurred due to reckless driving.
In Bhakkar, two persons died and 30 others including women and children sustained injuries when a passenger bus collided with a truck.
Rescue sources said that a Manshera-Karachi bound passenger bus collided with a truck on MM Road near Khansar.
The bodies and injured were shifted to hospital and the police registered a cases of the incident.