Around 12 passengers, including women and children, were killed and eight others injured in a road accident near Sheringal town of Upper Dir on Wednesday. According to details, a passenger van bearing registration number PSD-176, which was part of a three-vehicle convoy taking a dead body from Timergara to Doog Darra, plunged into a ravine at Jitkot. The dead were identified as Siraj, Owais, Muhammad Yar, Shamim, Saeeda Bibi, Said Hakeem, Nawab, Amir Alam, and Inam. The injured, including seven women, were taken to Dir DHQ Hospital.
Police and local residents said that the other two vans did not notice that the van had met an accident. Snow had turned the roads slippery in the area but the injured said that the driver’s drowsiness caused the accident.
