12 killed after bus overturns in Pakistan

A bus traveling on a highway in Pakistan’s Punjab province overturned after its breaks failed on Saturday killing at least 12 people and leaving eight others injured, Police and health officials said.

Saqib Waheed, spokesman for the federal Motorway Police, said the bus was travelling from the capital Islamabad to the eastern city of Lahore when its breaks failed about 135 kilometres from the capital on a sharp turn in the Salt mountain range.

According to Kalar Kahar Town Hospital official Amjad Hussain, seven bus passengers died in the hospital. Five of the 12 dead, including women and children, died at the scene of the accident and eight injured passengers were still being treated.

– THE HINDUSTAN TIMES