Van falls deep down ravine, 4 killed at Shangla

SHANGLA: At least four persons were killed and five sustained injuries as a passenger van plunged down a deep ravine at Sakargah on Saturday here, Geo News reported.

Sources said that the ill-fated passenger van on way from Shangla to Batgram went out of control due to high speed skidded deep down a ravine at Sakagah that killed four persons, while five sustained injuries.

Local people and rescue teams shifted the bodies and the injured to the nearby hospital.

20 students injured as school van plunges into ravine in Khanpur

KHANPUR: Twenty children were injured when a school van fell into a ravine in Khanpur on Thursday, Geo News reported.

Rescue sources told that the unfortunate van plunged into a ravine due to over speeding in Khanpur that wounded twenty school-going children out of which five were said to be in critical condition.

Seventeen injured children were shifted to Tehsil Headquarter Hospital, Taxila, two children were transferred to PIMS Hospital, Islamabad due to their serious condition while one was brought to Margalla Hospital, Taxila.