At least 19 passengers including three children were killed and 13 injured when a passenger bus collided into a trawler at Jhang Road.
Most passengers in the bus traveling from Lahore to Layyah were sleeping when the accident took place.
The accident occurred when the driver tried to avoid crashing into a donkey cart and rammed his vehicle into a trawler laden with iron bars in the opposite lane.
Rescue services reached the spot and shifted the injured to allied hospital.
The bus driver fled, police said.