Two Separate Bus Crashes in Pakistan Kill at Least 36

Two separate bus crashes hours apart in Pakistan on Sunday (Aug. 25) killed at least 36 people and injured dozens more, officials said. The first accident occurred when a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims returning from Iraq via Iran plunged off a highway into a ravine in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 32 others, police and officials said. The driver lost control on the Makran coastal highway when the brakes failed, as it passed through Lasbela district in Baluchistan province, local police chief Qazi Sabir said. Authorities in Baluchistan said efforts were underway to send the pilgrims' bodies to Punjab province for burial. Maryam Nawaz, the chief minister of Punjab state, expressed condolences after the crash. Hours later, 24 people, including two women and a child, were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine in Kahuta district of eastern Punjab province, police and officials said. Omar Farooq, a senior government official in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said there were no survivors. Initially, local police said seven people were injured, but doctors and government officials later said everyone on the bus died in the crash. Raja Moazzam, a search and rescue official, said most of the bodies had …

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Two Separate Bus Crashes in Pakistan Kill at Least 36

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