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12 killed, 14 wounded in Pakistan car accidentPakistani rescuers use excavators to pull a tractor-trailer from a passenger bus after an accident in the town of Sukkur, April 20, 2014.
A dozen people have died and 14 others sustained injures in a car accident in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, police say.
The incident took place on Sunday when a passenger van plunged into a ravine in Arja area, 65 kilometers (40 miles) east of the provincial capital, Muzaffarabad.
“The 24-seater van was coming to Rawalpindi from Bagh area when it plunged into a ravine at Arja, killing 12 people including women and wounding 14 others,” senior local police official Riaz Abbasi said.
He added that police have launched an investigation to find the reason behind the incident.
Abbasi, however, said that the mishap apparently happened due to the poor condition of the road.
Car accidents are rampant in Pakistan, a country that has one of the world’s worst records for fatal traffic mishaps, due to poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.
19 killed, 65 injured in Pakistan's road accidents
ISLAMABAD, July 6 (Xinhua) -- At least 19 people were killed and 65 others injured in five separate road accidents in Pakistan on Sunday, local media reported.
Samaa TV said that eight people were killed and 10 others injured when a passenger van ran into a truck on early Sunday morning in Jamshoro area of southern Sindh province.
Police said that the over-speeded van hit into a parked truck while traveling from Sukkur district of the province to the southern port city of Karachi.
The injured people were shifted to a nearby hospital.
In a separate accident in Naushehro Feroz district of Sindh, two drivers were killed when two oil tankers clashed into each other.
Police said that the collision kindled fire in both the vehicles and the drivers were burnt to death.
In another road accident in Nushki area of southwest Balochistan province, four people were killed and 35 others injured.
Police said that the accident happened when a passenger van plunged into a ravine while negotiating a sharp turn in mountainous terrain of Nushki district.
The injured people have been shifted to hospital where at least five of them were in critical condition.
In eastern Punjab province, two women were killed and a driver injured in a gas cylinder explosion of a rickshaw.
Police said that the rickshaw carrying two women and the driver caught fire when its cylinder exploded at Walton Road of Lahore, the capital city of Punjab, burning both women to death and injuring the driver seriously.
In another accident, three people were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger van and a car in Attock city of Punjab.
In Mardan district of the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 17 people were injured when a passenger van fall into a ravine on Sunday afternoon.
Pakistan is among the countries having the worst record of fatal traffic accidents, mainly due to poor roads, lack of driving skills, badly maintained vehicles and violation of road safety rules.
Traffic police say that 90 percent of the accidents in the country take place due to human error.
Xinhua is China's state-run news agency.
Six persons from a family were killed and two others wounded when a rickshaw and dumper truck collided in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
The accident occurred in Khandar area of Nowshera district yesterday when the rickshaw, carrying eight persons, collided with the dumper truck, police said.
Six persons died on the spot and the two persons wounded in the accident were rushed to a nearby hospital, Dawn newspaper reported.
The condition of one wounded is critical. All the passengers travelling in the rickshaw belonged to the same family.
The truck involved in the fatal mishap has been impounded and the search for the driver is going on.
Fatal traffic accidents, blamed on poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving, are frequent in Pakistan.
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