At least six people, including children, were killed and seven others injured when a jeep plunged into a river in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said.
The accident occurred in the Upper Chitral district of the province when the 14-seater jeep they were travelling in skidded off a mountainous track and fell into the Chitral River, the police said.
The rescue teams retrieved the dead bodies and moved them to the hospital. The injured were shifted to a
hospital.
Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur expressed profound grief and sorrow over the tragic road accident.
Gandapur directed hospital authorities to provide the best medical treatment to the injured.
