Passengers have been en path to a pilgrimage web site in Balochistan when the crash happened throughout Eid al-Fitr.
No less than 17 pilgrims have been killed and 41 injured after their car crashed whereas travelling to a shrine in southwestern Pakistan, officers stated.
The accident happened at about 10pm (17:00 GMT) on Wednesday within the Hub district of Balochistan province, police stated on Thursday.
“The truck was overspeeding and it went out of the driver’s control while negotiating a turn” and fell right into a ravine in a mountainous city as they approached the shrine, district deputy commissioner Munir Ahmed informed the AFP information company.
They have been on their technique to the Shah Noorani Sufi shrine within the metropolis of Khuzdar, Pakistan’s Daybreak newspaper reported, when the accident occurred throughout Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim vacation marking the tip of the holy month of Ramadan.
The driving force jumped out of the car to security, in keeping with Ahmed.
Shaukat Jalbani, the deputy medical superintendent of Hub’s major hospital, confirmed the 17 deaths and stated a lot of the injured had been despatched to Karachi for therapy.
Highway accidents with excessive fatalities are frequent in Pakistan the place security measures are lax, driver coaching is poor and transport infrastructure typically decrepit.
In January 2023, 41 folks have been killed when their passenger bus, which was additionally loaded with containers of flammable oil, plunged right into a ravine in Balochistan province and burst into flames.
In August that 12 months, no less than 30 folks have been killed and dozens injured after a practice derailed in southern Sindh province.
No less than 22 passengers, together with ladies and youngsters, have been killed in 2022 after a rushing van veered off a slim mountain street and plummeted right into a ravine north of Quetta in Balochistan.