DERA GHAZI KHAN ( Web Desk) – At least 10 people were killed and 44 others injured when a passenger bus overturned after striking a road divider on the Indus Highway in Rajanpur district’s Rojhan tehsil early Wednesday, according to Rescue 1122.
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The accident occurred near Bangla Hidayat at around 5:45am. Initial reports indicated that the bus was travelling at high speed when it hit the divider and overturned.
Rescue officials said the deceased included seven men, two women and a girl. Emergency teams transported the injured to nearby hospitals for treatment.
Of the 44 injured, 38 were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Rajanpur. Four critically injured passengers were referred to hospitals in Dera Ghazi Khan, while two others were shifted to Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Rahim Yar Khan.
Rescue 1122 deployed 10 ambulances and two rescue vehicles from Rajanpur, Jampur and Rojhan. A total of 35 rescuers participated in the emergency response.
Rajanpur Deputy Commissioner Imran Ranjha, the district police officer and the assistant commissioner also visited the accident site to supervise rescue efforts and coordinate the response.
Ranjha said legal proceedings would be initiated against the bus driver, who reportedly fled the scene, and the vehicle’s owner.
The incident follows another fatal road crash in Multan on Monday, when five men in their 20s died after a speeding Toyota Corolla struck a divider, crashed into a nearby plot’s boundary wall and caught fire.
According to Rescue 1122 figures cited in the report, Punjab records approximately 1,352 road traffic incidents daily, resulting in an average of 14 deaths.
