Eight people, two women among them, wer
e killed while eleven others injured after the van they were travelling in plunged into a ditch in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district. Rescue sources relayed the ill-fated van skidded off the Kaka Saheb road and fell into a ditch. School-going children were among those injured in the incident. The injured were shifted to a ne
arby medical facility for medical attention, they said, adding the incident occurred due to over-speeding. On August 1
8, five pe
rsons wer
e killed and several others had sustained injuries when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine near Akbarpura village of Nowshera district. The bus was on its way from Lahore to Peshawa
r when it careened off the road near Akbarpura and fell into a ravine.
