At least six people including threewomen were killed today and 44 others injured as a passenger busrammed into an oil tanker in this northwestern city of Pakistan, policesaid.
The incident occurred on Indus Highway near Noshapa oilfield in Karak district of KPK.
The Karachi-bound passenger bus collided head on with an oil tankercoming from opposite direction,District Police Officer Mian Naseeb Jan said.
Drivers of both thepassenger bus and oil tanker are among the dead.
The heavy machinery and crane of the nearby oilfield were called to extract the bodies of the dead and injured from the deformed bus after the incident.
The conditionof 20 of the injured is stated to be critical who have been shifted toPeshawar.
