Bus vs tanker: 14 dead, scores hurt

Lamentation A Palestinian relative of Moaath al-Souri, who was shot dead by Israeli troops at the Gaza Strip’s border, grieves during his funeral at a refugee camp. AP ISLAMABAD — At least 14 people were killed and over 30 others injured in a deadly road crash in Pakistan’s northwestern district of Kohat on Saturday evening, local media and police said.

According to the reports, the accident occurred when a passenger bus collided with an oil tanker at the Indus Highway near Samari area of Kohat, a district in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Rescue teams and police rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and the injured to the District Headquarters Hospital in the district.

The deceased included two women and two children, police said, adding that the accident happened due to over-speeding.

The ill-fated bus was on its way to the country’s southern port city of Karachi from northwestern Buner city. Xinhua