Bus collisions kill 45 pilgrims in Pakistan

Pakistani onlookers gather at the site of a bus collision at Indus Highway District outside Jamshoro, some 225km north of Karachi yesterday. At least 45 people, mostly pilgrims returning from a Muslim shrine, were killed and 100 injured in two separate bus collisions in southern Pakistan, police said. PHOTO: AFP

The victims of one accident late Saturday included students of a medical college who were returning from the shrine of Shahbaz Qalandar, said local police officer Malik Usman.

Their bus ploughed into another bus near the shrine, he said adding that 37 people died and 60 were injured.

Thousands of devotees visit the shrine in the town of Sehwan, 225km north of Karachi, every year to mark the anniversary of the Muslim saint's death.