QUETTA, Pakistan, July 3 (Reuters) – Forty people were killed and eight others injured after a bus fell into a deep roadside ditch in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Friday, a rescue agency and a government official said.
• The bus, operated by a private intercity service, was headed to national capital Islamabad from provincial capital Quetta, the agency said.
• There were 48 passengers on board at the time of the accident, it added.
• The eight injured were given first aid and then moved to a government hospital in Zhob city, about 75 km (50 miles) from the accident site in Sherani district, the agency said.
• The dead were also moved to the same hospital, the agency and Sherani Deputy Commissioner Hazrat Wali said.
• In a separate incident in neighbouring Afghanistan, four people were killed and 10 others were missing after a truck carrying 22 Afghan refugees from Pakistan plunged into a river along the Kabul–Jalalabad highway, military spokesperson Wahidullah Mohammadi said.
(Reporting by Saud Mehsud and Saleem Ahmed, Additional reporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar; writing by Sakshi Dayal and Shanima Aniyeri; Editing by YP Rajesh)
