SEHWAN: In a tragic road accident on the Indus Highway, five people were killed while four others sustained injuries when a passenger van collided with a rickshaw in the early hours of Sunday.
Police and rescue sources said that the van and the rickshaw collided head-on on the Indus Highway near Lucky Shah Saddar area. As a result, five people were killed and four injured.
The killed and the wounded were shifted to a nearby hospital.
The main reasons for road accidents in the country include poor vehicle condition, ignoring traffic rules and instruction marks on roads, signal breaking as well as speeding, wheelie, use of mobile while driving, wrong overtaking, use of drug, wrong parking, overloading and bad road condition.