Two separate bus accidents hours apart in Pakistan yesterday left at least 36 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said.
The first happened when a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims returning from Iraq through Iran fell from a highway into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 32 others, police and officials said.
Hours later, 24 people were killed when a bus fell into a ravine in Kahuta district in the eastern Punjab province, police and officials said.
The first accident occurred on the Makran coastal highway after the driver lost control of the bus when its brakes failed while passing through Lasbela district in Baluchistan province, local police chief Qazi Sabir said.
Bus accidents are common in Pakistan. The crash yesterday occurred days after 28 Pakistani pilgrims were killed in a bus crash in neighboring Iran while heading to Iraq.
The bodies of those victims were brought home on a Pakistani military plane on Saturday and buried in the southern Sindh province.
Sabir said the bus that fell into a ravine on Sunday was heading to Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province.
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