A head-on collision between two cars in northwest Pakistan today killed six people, including a woman and a child.
The passenger car was on its way to Dir district from the mountainous Chitral district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when it collided with another car near Ayun area and fell into a river, police said.
Six people, including a woman and a child, were killed in the accident, they said.
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