Twenty-two people, including children, are dead after a speeding bus veered into a ravine in Pakistan's south-west Baluchistan province, a government official says.
A speeding bus veered off a narrow mountain road and into a ravine in a remote area of south-west Pakistan, killing 22 passengers including children.A government official says there were no survivors among the passengersThe accident happened in the district of Qilla Saifullah in Baluchistan province on Wednesday, a government official said.
Deputy District Administrator Mohammad Qasim said rescuers transported the bodies to a nearby hospital.Mr Qasim initially said 18 people died in the accident but later added that rescuers retrieved four more bodies from the badly destroyed wreckage of the bus. He said relatives of passengers who died in the crash were arriving at a hospital to receive their bodies.The exact cause of the crash was not immediately known.
Authorities said the weather was fine at the time of the crash, and that police were looking into possible mechanical problems or human error as the cause of the crash. Witnesses to the accident said the bus appeared to be speeding when it lost control and fell into the ravine.
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