LAKKI MARWAT
Three persons were killed and as many sustained injured in road accident in the jurisdiction of Serai Gambilla Police Station on Monday, hospital sources said.
They said that a pickup truck of wedding procession was heading to Khan Dauran Wanda from Shamadu village when it turned turtle due to the negligence of the driver. Resultantly two persons were injured in the mishap.
The injured were shifted to a car and was heading to District Headquarters Hospital Lakki when the car collided with a trailer on Indus Highway wherein three were killed while another was injured.
The dead and injured were rushed to the emergency ward of DHQ Hospital where there was no ambulance to refer the injured to another hospital.
One of the dead was identified as Watan Khan while the injured included Waqar, Zubair and Younas.
It was learnt that ambulances of the DHQ Hospital had been given to the Rescue 1122.
When the officials of the Rescue 1122 were contacted, they told that no ambulance was available with them too as those were out in the field.
The hospital administration had to arrange private ambulances to shift the critically injured persons to the Khalifa Gul Nawaz Hospital in Bannu.
When contacted, acting Medical Superintendent Dr Akhtar Zaman said, “There is no ambulance at the hospital as our ambulances have been given at the disposal of Rescue 1122 otherwise the injured would have been referred to the hospital very earlier “
