ISLAMABAD, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 56 others injured in six separate road accidents in Pakistan on Monday, local media and police said.
According to the reports, at least three people were killed and 20 others sustained injuries when a passenger bus overturned in Mastung, a district near Pakistan's southwest provincial capital of Quetta.
The accident happened when the bus heading from Quetta to the southern port city of Karachi overturned due to over speeding at the Mastung bypass area.
In another accident, at least one student was killed and 11 others wounded when their vehicle fell into a gorge in Hari Pur district of the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Apart from this, at least two people lost their lives in two separate accidents in Kasur district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, police said.
In other two separate incidents which happened in Gujranwala and Faisalabad district of Punjab, at least 25 people including school children and teachers were injured when their vans met accidents while on the way to schools.
Punjab Police said that all the four accidents in the province happened due to due low visibility caused by the dense smog.
All the bodies and injured were shifted to nearby hospitals where injured were reportedly in stable condition.
The Punjab province has been engulfed by a thick smog over the last 20 days, which is causing road accidents.
Over 40 people have lost their lives and over 150 others got injured due to the smog-caused accidents over the last 20 days, the reports said.
According to official data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, around 9,000 road accidents are reported every year since 2011 in the country, killing more than 4,500 people on average annually.
