Road accidents in Saroki and Chenab Nagar claim 9 lives

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Road accidents in Saroki and Chenab Nagar claim 9 lives

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Nine people were killed in separate road accidents, on Tuesday.

15 March,2011 10:28 am

In a horrific collision between a bus and a trailer, both drivers and four members of a family lost their lives while 20 others were seriously injured in Saroki near Gujranwala. The bus was travelling from Hafizabad to Rawalpindi when it collided head on with a trailer. Bus driver Taufiq Ahmed and trailer driver Maandi died on the spot. Nazia Bibi, her four-year-old daughter, Fida, and her nephews Usman and Farhat, died on the spot.After receiving the information about the accident, Rescue 1122 arrived at the scene and shifted the injured to the District Hospital Gujranwala. Both the trailer and the bus involved in the accident have been damaged beyond repair.Separately, in Chenab Nagar a collision between a truck and a rickshaw left three people dead.