At least 15 people were killed and seven others wounded when a passenger coach overturned near Uthal in Lasbela, a coastal district of Balochistan, in the wee hours of Tuesday, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

The passenger coach was travelling from Panjgur to Karachi and when it reached near Uthal it turned turtle, killing 15 passengers including women and children on the spot and injuring seven others.

“The visibility on the road was very bad because of the fog which led to the accident,” a motorway police officer said.

Rescue teams reached the spot after getting information and shifted the dead and injured to Civil Hospital, Hub. Rescue sources informed that one woman and four children were among the victims.

Pakistan has one of the world’s worst records for fatal traffic accidents. Fast and reckless driving, poor road infrastructure and lack of safety precautions lead to a high number of accidents.

The high accident rate is often attributed to numerous U-turns and dangerous turns on the major roads. Experts are of the opinion that 35 percent of the road accidents are caused by the faulty designing of the roads.

Ever since winter started in Pakistan, dense fog enveloped multiple parts of the country, especially Punjab. People have been advised to refrain from travelling and using fog lights if they’re on the roads.

BAP leader, brother die in road mishap
Also on Monday, two people including a leader of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and his brother were killed in a dreadful road accident in Lasbela. A Hub-bound Vigo car and a mini-truck collided near DG Cement Company some 70 kilometres from Uthal, the tribal headquarter of district Lasbela. As a result of the accident, BAP leader Maula Buksh Roonjho and his brother Muhammad Buksh Roonjho were killed on the spot.

The bodies were shifted to Jam Ghulam Qadir Hospital Hub. The police arrested mini-truck driver Noor Shah s/o Yaseen, hailing from Quetta and after registering a case into the incident have started an investigation.