Ten killed as passenger van falls into Yasin river
Express News reports three women were among the dead and two passengers were injured when the van went out of control near Morakah bridge in Ghizer district.
Ten people, three of them women, were killed and two injured when a passenger van went out of control near Morakah bridge in Yasin valley of Ghizer district and fell into the Yasin River, Express News reported on Thursday.
Rescue sources quoted by the outlet said local volunteers carried out the recovery themselves, retrieving ten bodies from the river and shifting them to a hospital. The report did not name the hospital, give the van's route or destination, identify any of the dead, or describe the injuries of the two survivors.
No account of why the vehicle left the road was given. The report carried no version from the police or from the district administration, and the toll it published came from rescue sources rather than from an official count.
Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Amjad Hussain expressed deep grief over the loss of life and directed the district administration, rescue agencies and the health department to shift the injured to the nearest hospitals immediately and to use all available resources to treat them.
He told the administration that no negligence would be accepted in the rescue operation and that he would personally monitor the medical care of the injured.
The chief minister offered condolences to the families of those killed, saying the loss of life in the accident was deeply regrettable, and prayed for the dead, for the families to bear the loss and for the injured to recover quickly.
Yasin valley lies in Ghizer district, north-west of Gilgit, and the river of the same name runs through it.
Mountain roads in Gilgit-Baltistan carry passenger vans between valley villages and the district headquarters, and such vehicles frequently travel without barriers along riverbanks.
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