Three die, 8 injured as truck carrying wedding party plunges into canal in Multan

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MULTAN: At least three people including two children died while women and children among eight others were injured when a truck carrying participants of wedding party fell into canal here on Tuesday.

Rescue source said that a truck carrying participants of wedding participants of wedding party returning to Muzaffarabad after attending a wedding ceremony in Multan skidded off road to the breaking of the axle and it fell into a canal near Multan city.

Two children among three people died in the incident while eight others including women and children were injured.

The rescue personnel rushed the scene of the accident, pulled out one body and eight injured from the canal and shifted them to the hospital for medico-legal formalities. Search for bodies of two children which went missing was in progress.