Bus crash in southern Pakistan kills 41

(Reuters) – Greater than 40 individuals had been killed after a bus fell right into a ravine within the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, based on native media.

Assistant Commissioner Hamza Anjum for Lasbela, a district in Balochistan, advised Daybreak newspaper the car had crashed right into a bridge, inflicting it to fall right into a ravine and catch hearth.

He was quoted as saying 41 of the 48 individuals on board had been killed, whereas on the journey from Balochistan’s capital of Quetta to the southern metropolis of Karachi, based on Daybreak.

Deadly highway accidents are frequent in Pakistan, the place visitors guidelines are not often adopted and roads in lots of rural areas are in poor situation.

A minimum of 22 individuals had been killed in June, together with 9 members of 1 household when a passenger van fell into deep ravine in Balochistan.

(Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield; Enhancing by William Mallard)