UPPER DIR: Seven people, including women and children, died and several others injured when a passenger bus fell into a ditch near Upper Dir on Monday.

According to the police sources, the driver of the bus lost control of the vehicle and it broke the safety barrier and fell from a height.

The dead bodies and injured have been shifted to the nearby district headquarters hospital for medico-legal formalities and treatment respectively.

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He directed the hospital administration to provide the best possible health facilities to the injured.

On March 24, a mother and two daughters were killed and two other people injured when a bus and a rickshaw had collided on Darya Khan Road in Bhakkar.

Rescue teams had rushed the dead bodies to hospital for medico-legal formalities. Two injured were also brought to the hospital for treatment. Whereas, enraged people had set the bus, involved in the accident, on fire. The incident had taken place near Chowni Shumali area.

Bol news reporter Saleem Akhtar had said Darya Khan Road was dilapidated for a long time.