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The passengers have been heading in the direction of a pilgrimage website in Balochistan when the accident occurred throughout Eid-ul-Fitr.
A minimum of 17 pilgrims have been killed and 41 injured when a car they have been touring in crashed throughout a go to to a temple in southwestern Pakistan, officers mentioned.
The accident occurred at round 10 pm (17:00 GMT) on Wednesday within the Hub district of Balochistan province, police mentioned on Thursday.
District Deputy Commissioner Munir Ahmed advised information company AFP, “The truck was touring at a really excessive velocity and whereas taking a flip it went out of the driving force's management” and as they approached the temple, it veered right into a ravine within the hill city. fallen.
They have been headed to the Shah Noorani Sufi shrine in Khuzdar metropolis when the accident occurred throughout Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim vacation marking the tip of the holy month of Ramadan, Pakistan's Daybreak newspaper reported.
Based on Ahmed, the driving force jumped out of the car to security.
Shaukat Jalbani, deputy medical superintendent of the hub's most important hospital, confirmed 17 deaths and mentioned a lot of the injured had been despatched to Karachi for therapy.
Highway accidents are widespread with excessive numbers of deaths in Pakistan, the place security measures are lax, driver coaching is poor and transportation infrastructure is commonly poor.
In January 2023, 41 individuals died when their passenger bus, additionally loaded with flammable oil containers, fell right into a ravine in Balochistan province and burst into flames.
In August that 12 months, at the least 30 individuals have been killed and dozens injured when a prepare derailed in southern Sindh province.
In 2022, at the least 22 passengers, together with ladies and kids, have been killed when a dashing van veered off a slim mountain street and fell right into a ravine north of Quetta in Balochistan.