MANSEHRA: At least six people, including five soldiers, lost their lives when a vehicle veered off the Karakoram Highway and fell into a deep ravine in Lower Kohistan on Tuesday.
The car was travelling from Gilgit-Baltistan to Rawalpindi when it skidded off the road and fell into a ravine, resulting in the instant death of all those on board. “The car went out of the driver’s control while negotiating a sharp turn in the Tarais Banda area and plunged into a ravine near the Indus River, leaving all those on board dead at the scene,” Zafar Ahmad Khan, the district police officer (DPO) of Lower Kohistan, told reporters.
Police and Rescue 1122 teams, led by SHO Pattan Sanaullah Khan, rushed to the scene and, after several hours of hectic efforts, retrieved the bodies from the vehicle wreckage, which fell on the bank of the Indus River. The bodies were later shifted to a hospital in Pattan, the district headquarters of Lower Kohistan.
“The accident occurred in difficult mountainous terrain. Police and rescuers retrieved the bodies and shifted them to the hospital, from where they would be dispatched to their respective hometowns and cities across the country,” the DPO said.He said that the deceased were identified as Danial, Mohammad Imran, Mohammad Waseem, Faizan Raza, Mohammad Shahban and Salman Khan.
