ISLAMABAD, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least 27 people were killed and dozens other injured in several different road accidents across Pakistan since Sunday night, according to local reports Monday.
At least 19 people were killed in the country's eastern Punjab Province, another six were killed in southern Sindh Province and two in northwest Kyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Dunya News reported that six people including a minor girl were killed when a over-speeding passenger van ran into passers-by due to tire burst in Punjab's Jhang city.
In a separate accident, six people were killed when a passenger van ran into two motorcycles after losing control over the vehicle due to over-speeding in the Punjab's city of Gojra.
Two passenger vans caught fire after colliding with each other in Uch Sharif district of Punjab, killing two people on the spot and injuring 26 others. According to hospital sources, 16 among the hospitalized people are in critical conditions.
Separately, a rashly driven car fell into a canal, killing two people on board where rescue workers have rescued three others from the canal and shifted them to a nearby hospital in Sheikhupura district of Punjab.
On the other hand, at least four persons including women and a child were killed and 12 others got injured when a passenger van turned turtle after crashing into a tree in the Sindh's Badin.
A husband and his wife got killed after a speeding bus hit their motorcycle in the country's southern port city of Karachi.
Meanwhile, four other people lost their lives in two separate accidents in Punjab's cities of Attock and Vehari and one in KPK's Kohat.
