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13 killed in Pakistan's road accidents

Xinhua, August 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least 13 people were killed and 16 others injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on Tuesday, local media reported.

Samaa TV said that in the first accident, a van-oil tanker collision left nine people dead and six others injured in the country's east Punjab province.

The passenger van with some 20 people onboard had a head-on collision with the oil tanker coming from opposite direction in Jand area of Attock, a district located some 95 km west of the country's capital Islamabad.

Police said that the over-speeded oil tanker went out of the driver's control and hit the van.

The inured people have been shifted to a nearby hospital where at least two of them are said to be in critical condition.

In a separate road accident in the country's south Sindh province, four people were killed and 10 others injured when a passenger van hit into a dumper, Geo News said.

Police said that the van driver fell asleep at the wheel and hit into the dumper from behind near Larkana district of the province.

The injured people have been shifted to a nearby hospital. Endi