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By APD writer Muhammad Sohail
At least 26 persons were killed and a dozen others were injured in a passenger bus accident on Babusar Pass in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan region in the north of Pakistan on Sunday, san official said.
Spokesperson for the Gilgit-Baltistan government Faizullah Firaq, said that the deceased and injured, which included Pakistan Army troops, were shifted to the district headquarters hospital in Chilas.
He added that the process of identifying the deceased was underway.
In a rescue operation carried out by the Pakistan Army, the injured were shifted to Combined Military Hospital, Gilgit by armed forces' aviation helicopters, the military's media wing said in a statement. The bodies of the dead were also taken to CMH, Gilgit, the statement added.
Local police spokesperson Mohammad Wakeel said the passenger bus, belonging to a private company, had departed from Skardu for Rawalpindi city but the driver lost control of the bus and it collided against a mountain.
It is not clear yet how the driver lost control of the vehicle.
The Babusar Pass road, frequently used by tourists, remains open from the end of June to October every year. It then remains closed following heavy snowfall at Babusar Top.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)