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A school trip turned into a horrific accident when a bus carrying dozens of students fell into a ditch in Islamabad's Shahdara area, leaving a girl dead and 20 others wounded on Saturday, Geo News reported.
The police said that a schoolgirl died on the spot.
Confirming the number of casualties, the police said that the students from Sheikhupura were out for a picnic in Islamabad when their bus met the accident.
They said that at least 39 students were on board the ill-fated bus. The rescue teams reached the site of the accident and shifted the injured to hospitals, they said.
Thirteen of the students were shifted to Poly Clinic Hospital and eight to the PIMS hospital. Details of the remaining students remained unknown till the filing of this report.
Sharing further details of the incident, the police said that the vehicle’s engine was running while the driver stood outside. At that time, they said, the bus started moving down the hill and eventually landed in the ditch.
Earlier this month, a woman was killed and eight — including children — were wounded in a road accident on Karachi's Sharea Faisal.
Police said that the accident took place on November 10 near the Colony Gate bus stop, where a speeding bus went out of the control of the driver and hit a family traveling on a motorcycle and other people.
Following the accident, police and rescue teams shifted the casualties to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where the deceased were identified as 30-year-old Masooma, her injured husband, and two children as 35-year-old Athar Abbas, three-year-old Malik Athar, and one-year-old Abbas respectively.
