Eleven killed as van falls into Yasin River in Ghizer
Police say the driver lost control near Morkah Bridge on Thursday evening; the two injured were taken to Gupis Civil Hospital.
Eleven people were killed and two injured when a passenger van travelling from Gilgit to Yasin Valley went off the road and fell into the Yasin River in Ghizer district on Thursday evening, police said.
The driver lost control of the vehicle near Morkah Bridge, according to police, and the van went into the river below the road.
Rescue teams recovered the bodies of ten passengers, among them two women, and pulled three injured people from the water, including a child. The injured were taken to Gupis Civil Hospital for treatment.
Police later put the death toll at eleven, saying the dead included an infant, and said two people had been injured. The revised figure was reported after the first group of bodies and survivors had been brought out of the river.
Yasin Valley is a tehsil of Ghizer district, and the van was on the road out of Gilgit, the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan, when the accident happened on Thursday evening.
Gupis, where the injured were taken, lies on the same road through the district. Police did not say in the initial account what caused the driver to lose control at the bridge.
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