Seven persons were killed, 18 inured, six of them seriously, when a passenger bus collided head on with a pick-up near Chak Aruri on bypass linked with Jhang road here on Thursday. According to details, a passenger bus FDV-2455 on its way to Gojra from Faisalabad when overtook a Mazda Van near Aruri, it collided with a Pick-up coming from opposite direction while the Mazda Van, also in speed, collided with the bus from behind, and the bus turned turtle.
As a result six persons of Pick-up died on the spot, while an unknown passenger of bus breathed his last on way to hospital.
More than 18 injured have been admitted to the Allied Hospital and some other private hospitals.