At least eleven people have lost their lives and another 33 have been injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck in the vicinity of the city of Pakpattan, in the Pakistani eastern province of Punyab.
The accident occurred on the road that connects Depalpur with Pakpattan, when the bus, which was traveling between Multan and Kasur, collided head-on with a truck traveling in the opposite direction, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, which cites emergency services and local authorities.
After receiving the report, emergency teams and members of the district administration went to the area and carried out a complicated rescue operation that lasted for several hours. To be able to remove the passengers who had been trapped inside the bus, it was necessary to use cranes and various heavy machinery.
Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, has conveyed his “deepest condolences” to the relatives of the deceased victims through a statement circulated on social media, in which he also expressed his wish for the injured to make a speedy recovery.
Likewise, Punyab’s chief minister, Maryam Nawaz, and the president of the National Assembly, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, have expressed their sorrow over the accident and have called for the preparation of a detailed report to make it possible to clarify the causes of the accident.