Dawn
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06:06 Jul 14, 2025
CHAKWAL: Six people, including four women, lost their lives while 27 others sustained injuries as a bus carrying them crashed on Islamabad-Lahore Motorway (M2) near Chakri Interchange on Sunday noon. According to officials of the National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) and Rescue 1122, the bus belonging to Haji Abdul Sattar Company was on way to Multan from Rawalpindi with 41 passengers aboard. “The bus hardly crossed the Chakri Interchange when it overturned and fell into a gorge,” an official of NHMP told Dawn. The accident occurred around 12:30pm. Resultantly, five passengers died on the spot while one lost his life at the District Headquarters Hospital Chakwal. As many as 27 other passengers, including women and children, received injuries. Personnel of Rescue 1122 from Rawalpindi and Chakwal, NHMP and Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) reached the scene and shifted the injured to hospitals in Chakwal, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. NHMP officer says driver’s negligence led to accident as road was slippery...