Four kiln labourers were killed while 18 others injured in a truck-trailer collision near Crystal Rice Mills here on Sunday.
Reports revealed that a truck (SGD-5945), which was full of labourers working at a kiln in Gujranwala, was coming towards Pindi Bhattian when an NLC trailer (LSC-2971) coming from the opposite side collided with it, as a result, four labourers died on the spot and 18 others injured.
All the injured labourers were rushed to a local hospital. Four among them having critical injuries were, however, shifted to the Allied Hospital Faisalabad.
The dead workers were identified as Riaz, Zaman, Rabia, while the name of the fourth one could not be ascertained. They all belonged to Basirpur.
Those who were injured included Sarfaraz, Inayat, Shahzad, Manzoor, Nawaz, Mukhtar, Naja, Amjad, Shehnaz, Iftikhar, Kaneez, Bashiran, Hafeez Bibi, Farzana, Iram and Shazia.