VEHARI: Four members of a family were killed and six others injured in a collision between a car and a passenger coaster on Multan Road on Saturday.
According to details, a passenger coaster coming to Vehari from Multan collided with a car while saving a rickshaw near Morr Rab Rakha. As a result, four persons of the family, including a woman and her son, died on the spot while six others sustained injuries.
The deceased were identified as ASI Vehari Police Muhammad Farooq’s wife Anum Bibi, his nine-year-old son Affan Farooq, his mother-in-law Surayyah Bibi, and brother-in-law Osman. They were going to Dunyapur to attend a marriage ceremony. The injured were identified as Sana Bibi, Muhammad Osman, Shah Zain, Aneeb Ahmad, Ijaz Qadri, and Hanif.
On information, rescue teams rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies to their native town, 55/WB, and the injured to the district headquarters hospital, Vehari where the condition of the two injured was said to be critical. The coaster driver managed to escape from there. The eyewitnesses said that the incident took place due to the over speeding of the coaster and the over-taking of the rickshaw.