At least 20 people were burned alive and six more were injured Tuesday in an explosion. Gasoline tanker full of fuel after colliding with a bus carrying passengers in eastern Pakistan.
accident It happened early in the morning on a one-way road near the city of Multan in the eastern province of Punjab, when the bus collided from behind with a fuel truck, he said. ef local police representative Abed Hussein.
“The driver seems to have fallen asleep after hitting the tanker from behind,” said Hussein, who was on duty at the police checkpoint. Multan police.
Multan Administration Commissioner Amir Khattak left for the scene accidentand later tweeted that a bus en route from the northern city of Lahore to the southern city of Karachi had crashed into a tanker from behind, “starting a fire”, killing 20 people and injuring six.
Dr Kazi Ayub, head of the emergency department at Nishtar Hospital in Multan, where the victims were transferred, explained ef that twenty of the dead suffered severe burns and could not be identified, so “a DNA test will be carried out to identify the bodies.”
In addition, among the six victims, he noted, four received serious burns of more than 20% of the body, and in one of the cases, the burn area reached 70%.
Chief Minister of Punjab, Parvez Elahiordered an investigation into the accident, while Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed regret over the tragedy and conveyed condolences to the families of the victims.
Road accidents in Pakistan
accident Today, the memory of an incident that took place in June 2017, also in Punjab, is revived for many, when a tanker truck carrying thousands of liters of gasoline overturned and later exploded, engulfing dozens of neighbors, including women and children, who went to the place to collect fuel, in flames.
A few weeks after this incident, the death toll continued to rise, reaching 218 due to the death of several injured with severe burns in addition to 64 injured.
And that’s what Pakistan Has one of the indexes road accidents the highest in the world due to the poor condition of the roads, lack of means of transport and the fact that public transport is usually overloaded with passengers.
According to the government of Pakistan, about 30,000 people die every year as a result of traffic accidents in the country.
On Tuesday alone, in another accident, at least eight people died and 20 were injured after a bus carrying passengers overturned and crashed into a gorge in the southern province of Sindh, local television Aaj reported. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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