Road accident kills 9 in Pakistan

Nine people were killed and 12 wounded Sunday morning when a passenger van collided with a truck at Indus Highway near Shikarpur, 350 km north of Pakistan's largest port city Karachi, local private Geo TV reported.

A passenger van was collided with a truck while overtaking a vehicle at Khanpur, 40 km south of Shikarpur, police said.

Nine people in the van were killed on the spot, while 12 others were wounded and admitted in local hospital, according to the report.

Four wounded persons were in a precarious state, hospital sources said. The identities of the dead were yet to be established.

Source: Xinhua