QUETTA: Six people were killed in a head-on collision between a coach and a car near Bostan on Quetta-Qila Saifullah road on Thursday.

The Lahore-bound coach coming from Quetta collided with the car coming from the opposite direction, police said. Six occupants of the car travelling from the Kan Mehtarzai area died. The bodies were shifted to a nearby hospital.

The deceased were identified as Hayatullah, Ehsanullah, Niaz Muhammad, Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Lal and Manzoor Ahmed.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2016

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