At least 20 dead, including 11 children, and 14 injured left a tragic bus accidentwhich fell into a deep, flooded ditch in southern Pakistan, police said on Friday.
Bus fell into a ditch, killing 20
The incident occurred on Thursday night, November 17, in Sindh province, where the bus “fell into a water-filled ditch on a road swept away by floods this summer,” local police officer Khadim Hussain said. to the AFP.
It added that “the driver could not see the detour sign on the road, so the van plunged into a 25-foot-deep ditch” near the town of Sehwan Sharif.
According to what Hussain expressed, the children killed in the accident They were between two and eight years old, most likely sitting on their parents’ laps when they were fatally injured. In addition to that, another 14 people were injured in the accident.
Pakistan was hit by record monsoon rains this year that covered a third of the country, displaced eight million people and battered its already crumbling infrastructure. Credible research has linked flooding to climate change.
It is worth mentioning that the country has a staggeringly high rate of road deaths, attributed to decrepit roads and reckless driving. Specifically, Pakistan records the third highest number of road accidents in the worlda record attributed to the aforementioned roads and reckless drivers.
In addition, according to estimates by the World Health Organization, more than 27,000 people died on the roads of Pakistan during the year 2018.
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