25 hurt after dozens of vehicles collide in huge motorway pile-up in Pakistan due to dense fog - GulfToday

25 hurt after dozens of vehicles collide in huge motorway pile-up in Pakistan due to dense fog

  • 30 Nov 2021
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Cars pile up on M-2 motorway at Kala Shah Kaku near Sheikhupura district of Punjab province on Tuesday. Twitter photo

At least 25 people were injured on Tuesday morning after 30 vehicles piled up on motorway due to low-visibility and dense fog at three different locations in Pakistan, police said.

An official from the patrolling police told local media that the vehicles, mostly cars, piled up on M-2 motorway at Kala Shah Kaku and Qila Sattar Shah areas in Sheikhupura district of the eastern Punjab province due to dense fog.

Several cars also collided with one another on M-1 motorway in the country's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province due to dense fog, leaving more than six people injured, Xinhua news agency reported.

Fog-Motorway-accident A car rams into a bus on M-2 Motorway near Lahore.

Police and rescue teams rushed to the sites and shifted the injured to nearby hospitals.

Local media quoting hospitals' officials said at least 10 of the injured got serious wounds and are being treated at the intensive care units.

The police said that the accidents occurred after visibility on the roads dropped sharply due to dense fog. All kinds of traffic were stopped from entering the motorways following the accidents.

Indo-Asian News Service

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