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In 2021 alone, 10,379 road accidents resulted in some 5,608 fatalities. [3] Former Minister of Communications, Murad Saeed, stated that "in Pakistan, a person is killed or severely injured in a road accident every five minutes." [4] Pakistan also ranks first in Asia for most deaths caused by traffic accidents.
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As a result of the collision, the oil tanker and the bus caught fire and at least 20 people were killed and six injured in the accident. The Motorway Police had safely pulled out nine passengers from the two burning vehicles and were immediately shifted to nearby hospitals. M-5 motorway was closed for several hours at the scene of the accident ...
The 2015 Karachi traffic accident occurred on 10 January 2015, when a passenger bus in transit from Karachi to Shikarpur crashed into an oil tanker killing up to 62 people including 6 children. [1] The bus was carrying up to 80 people, with 62 inside the bus and 10 on top, due to overcrowding. [ 2 ]
Shahrah-e-Faisal is one of Karachi's busiest roads, and is the site of frequent traffic jams. [26] The Road Traffic Injury and Prevention Centre of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre showed that at least one person dies, and an average of 83 people are wounded, every day on Karachi roads. Shahrah-e-Faisal is considered to be the deadliest road ...
AHMEDABAD/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Heavy rains battered India and Pakistan's coastal areas along the Arabian Sea, flooding cities in western India's Gujarat state and forcing thousands of people from ...
The major incident was declared earlier by the Lincolnshire Resilience Forum (LRF). It said in addition to the current floods it was concerned about freezing temperatures across the county overnight.
March 11 – Tanzania – Iringa road accident. A bus and two trucks collided, killing 41 and injuring 25. [189] March 15 – Brazil – Joinville bus accident. A tourist bus veered off a road and plunged approximately 100 m (330 ft) into a ravine in Santa Catarina, killing 54 and injuring 10. [190] March 21 – Egypt – Giza bus accident. A ...