Eleven killed as Gilgit-Yasin van crashes in Ghizer
A Hiace bound for Hindur met with the accident near a bridge in Yasin Valley, and a 13-month-old girl hurt in the crash died at Gupis Hospital.
Eleven people were killed and two injured when a Hiace passenger van travelling from Gilgit to Yasin met with an accident in Yasin Valley in Ghizer district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Tribal News Network reported.
The report said the vehicle was bound for Hindur. It placed the accident near Nau Bridge and, further down, named the site as Morkah Bridge. It did not say what caused the crash or how many people were on board.
Rescue 1122 said it received information about the accident at around 8pm. Teams from Gupis, Gahkuch and Singal were sent to the scene, and additional resources were being dispatched from Gilgit. A water rescue team was also on its way to Ghizer to assist, the service said.
Rescue officials said a 13-month-old girl injured in the accident had been shifted from Yasin to Gupis Hospital, where she died of her injuries. The toll given in the report was 11. The report did not make clear whether the girl was counted among the two injured or among the 11 dead, and gave no condition for the injured.
Authorities said the rescue operation and a search for missing people were continuing with the assistance of local residents. The exact number of missing people had not been confirmed.
Neither report named any of the dead or the injured, or identified the driver of the van.
Ghizer is the district that carries the road from Gilgit towards Yasin and the Punial valley. The reports did not say what time the van left Gilgit, how far it had travelled, or whether other vehicles were involved.
The same toll and the same account of the rescue were carried by Menafn, which published the rescue details without the vehicle's route, the district or the name of the bridge.
How the reports differ
Tribal News Network alone reported the van's route, saying it was travelling from Gilgit to Hindur, and named Ghizer district and Yasin Valley as the site. Menafn carried the same toll of 11 dead and two injured and the same rescue details, but its account began with Rescue 1122's timeline and omitted the vehicle's route, the district and the bridge. Both reports gave the location as Nau Bridge in one place and Morkah Bridge in another, and neither explained the discrepancy.
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