MANSEHRA: A speedy truck rammed into eight vehicles in Ghazikot area on Karakoram Highway (KKH), leaving over two dozens people seriously injured, officials said on Thursday.They said the driver of a loaded truck, which was on its way to Gilgit-Baltistan from Rawalpindi, rammed into vehicles on Wednesday night. As a result, several persons including men, women and children injured. The police and locals rushed to the scene and shifted the injured to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital from where 10 of them were referred to Ayub Medical Complex Hospital in Abbottabad. “The traffic wardens rushed to scene, pulled the injured people out of vehicles with the help of locals and shifted them to hospital,” Mudassar Zia, traffic in-charge, told reporters. “We have repeatedly written to the department concerned for alleviation and shortening a dangerous curve at this portion of KKH outside Muttain-di-Ziarat in Ghazikot to avoid frequent accidents but to no avail,” said Zia.
from The News International - Peshawar http://bit.ly/2DKbRwJ
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