ISLAMABAD, Jun 8 (NNN-APP) – One person was killed and 17 others remained missing, after a passenger van plunged into a river, in Pakistan’s Upper Kohistan district of north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province yesterday, a rescue official said.
The body of a woman has been recovered, Muhamad Hamza, an official of the emergency rescue service, Rescue 1122, in Upper Kohistan, said, adding that, rescue teams have been searching for the other missing passengers of the van.
The incident happened when the driver lost control of the vehicle, carrying 18 people, while negotiating a sharp turn. The passenger van then veered off into the Indus River, in the Pani Bagh area of Upper Kohistan, and got submerged immediately, said the official.
He said, professional divers of the rescue service, along with local volunteers, have been taking part in the rescue activities, adding that, another team of trained divers has also been dispatched from the country’s northwest Peshawar city to speed up rescue operation.
The van was travelling from Pakistan’s northern Chilas city of Gilgit-Baltistan region, to the eastern Rawalpindi district, when the accident happened.– NNN-APP
