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At least 40 killed in passenger bus crash in southwest Pakistan
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- Bus lost control and fell into the rocky ravine near border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials say.
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- “A passenger bus travelling from Quetta to Peshawar plunged into a deep ravine in the mountainous Dana Sar area,” Sanaullah Sherani, the head of Zhob district’s emergency centre, told the AFP news agency on Friday.
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Bus lost control and fell into the rocky ravine near border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials say.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A road winds through the rugged terrain of the Pakistani province of Balochistan [File: Getty]By AFP, AP and Reuters Published On 3 Jul 20263 Jul 2026A bus has plunged from a highway into a ravine in southwestern Pakistan, killing 40 people, officials say.
“A passenger bus travelling from Quetta to Peshawar plunged into a deep ravine in the mountainous Dana Sar area,” Sanaullah Sherani, the head of Zhob district’s emergency centre, told the AFP news agency on Friday.
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