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By APD writer Muhammad Sohail
**ISLAMABAD, Nov. 20 (APD)- **At least 20 people were killed and seven others injured in a road accident in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh on Monday morning, officials said.
A police officer, Rai Mazhar Iqbal, told media that the incident happened when a coal-laden truck fell at a passenger wagon near Waris Goath area in Khairpur, a district of Sindh province.
According to the police officer, the overloaded truck attempted to overtake the passenger vehicle, but the driver could not control the truck and it fell at the wagon only to destroy it completely.
Rescue teams and police rushed to the site after the accident and shifted the bodies and injured to the district hospital Khairpur.
Rescuers had to cut the completely pressed structure of the wagon to take out the bodies and injured.
Ghulam Soomro, the medical superintendent of the hospital, said that rescue teams have brought 17 bodies and 10 injured to the hospital, while three injured succumbed to their injuries.
The death toll might further rise as three of the injured are in critical condition, said the hospital official.
Both the truck and the passenger van were heading towards district Sukkur from Khairpur when they met the deadly accident.
Police has registered a case against the truck driver and sent a party for his arrest as he managed to run away from the site after the accident.
Earlier in the morning, a car carrying a family fell off a road into a deep gorge near Pakistani capital of Islamabad, killing all six people on-board.
According to official data, around 9,000 road accidents are reported every year since 2011 in Pakistan, in which around 5,000 people lost their lives on average annually and scores of others faced permanent disabilities.
Around 90 percent of the accidents in Pakistan are caused by human mistakes, said police.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
