NEW DELHI: A minimum of 17 spiritual pilgrims had been killed and 41 others injured in a tragic accident whereas en path to a shrine in southwestern Pakistan. Based on a report by AFP, the incident occurred at 10 pm on Wednesday evening within the Hub district of Balochistan province. The district deputy commissioner Munir Ahmed mentioned that the driving force misplaced management of the rushing truck, inflicting it to plunge right into a ravine close to the shrine. “The truck was overspeeding and it went out of the driver’s control while negotiating a turn and fell into a ravine,” he mentioned.Shaukat Jalbani, the deputy medical superintendent of Hub’s foremost hospital, confirmed the casualties and talked about that the injured have been transferred to Karachi for remedy. This unlucky occasion echoes an identical tragedy in January 2023, the place 41 people had been killed in a bus accident in Balochistan.
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