Pakistan bus crash kills no less than 18 as car bursts into flames on motorway onerous shoulder

At least 18 folks have died and 16 are injured after a bus caught fireplace within the japanese Punjab province of Pakistan.

The car, which was heading to the capital of Islamabad, hit a van that was parked on the onerous shoulder of the intercity motorway earlier than bursting into flames on Sunday morning.

The drivers of each automobiles died, in accordance with police.

The van was carrying three barrels of petrol, which induced an inferno that engulfed each the bus and van, senior police officer Fahad Ahmed mentioned.

There had been greater than 40 passengers on the bus.

Several passengers are in a essential situation after being badly burned.

Others had been compelled to flee the bus by the home windows, affected by minor burns.

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Deadly collisions are widespread in Pakistan, the place visitors guidelines are hardly ever adopted and roads in lots of rural areas are in poor situation.

More than 40 folks died in January after a bus fell right into a ravine and caught fireplace within the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan.