{"id":295827,"date":"2022-11-18T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=295827"},"modified":"2022-11-18T06:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T01:50:14","slug":"18-killed-as-van-falls-in-ditch-near-sehwan-toll-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/18-killed-as-van-falls-in-ditch-near-sehwan-toll-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"18 killed, as van falls in ditch near Sehwan toll plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SEHWAN<br \/>\nEighteen passengers were killed and several injured after a bus plunged into a ditch near Sehwan toll plaza on the Indus Highway on Thursday.<br \/>\nFive passengers were rescued and shifted to a nearby hospital, while the operation is underway to evacuate more people.<br \/>\nDr Moeen Siddiqui at the Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical Sciences Sehwan confirmed that five passengers were being treated. Two of the injured are told to be critical.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, he also informed that among the 18 who lost their lives 10 were children \u2014 four boys and six girls aged between 10 to 15 years \u2014 and eight women.<br \/>\nHowever, police officials claim 17 passengers were on board out of which five were rescued.<br \/>\nFollowing the accident, police informed that cuts were installed on the Indus Highway during to drain flood water; however, the ditch wasn\u2019t filled even two months later \u2014 which led to the unfortunate incident.<br \/>\nThe catastrophic flooding \u2014 which put a third of Pakistan underwater and displaced eight million of the country\u2019s population \u2014 are yet another hurdle affectees struggle to overcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEHWAN Eighteen passengers were killed and several injured after a bus plunged into a ditch near Sehwan toll plaza on the Indus Highway on Thursday. Five passengers were rescued and shifted to a nearby hospital, while the operation is underway to evacuate more people. Dr Moeen Siddiqui at the Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical Sciences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>18 killed, as van falls in ditch near Sehwan toll plaza<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/18-killed-as-van-falls-in-ditch-near-sehwan-toll-plaza\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"18 killed, as van falls in ditch near Sehwan toll plaza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SEHWAN Eighteen passengers were killed and several injured after a bus plunged into a ditch near Sehwan toll plaza on the Indus Highway on Thursday. 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