ISLAMABAD: At least 26 people, including 10 Pakistan Army soldiers, were killed and dozens injured after a passenger bus collided against a mountain on Babusar Pass in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan on early Sunday morning.
According to reports, the driver lost control of the bus, resulting in a collision; however, it was not clear yet how the driver lost control of the vehicle.
Diamer police spokesperson Mohammad Wakeel said the passenger bus, belonging to a private company, had departed from Skardu yesterday night for Rawalpindi.
GB government spokesperson Faizullah Faraq said the deceased and injured, which included Pakistan Army troops, were shifted to the district headquarters hospital in Chilas.
An emergency was also declared at the DHQ hospital.
Faraq said that the injured were being shifted to Gilgit in a helicopter.
He expressed gratitude to the force commander for providing a Pakistan Army helicopter for the mission, adding that an ambulance of the Army was also taking part in the rescue operation.
An official in the DC office of Diamer, Raja Ashfaq, said that most the of deceased and injured are from Skardu. Ashfaq said that Rescue 1122 and police teams had been dispatched to the site of the accident.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), army troops undertook rescue and relief operation for unfortunate the bus accident at Babusar Top.
“Pakistan army aviation helicopters have evacuated injured to CMH Gilgit for medical treatment,” ISPR said.
The media’s military wing added bodies of 26 passengers, including 10 soldiers, who lost life have also been shifted to CMH Gilgit.
The Babusar Pass road, frequently used by tourists, remains open from the end of June to October every year. It then remains closed following heavy snowfall at Babusar Top.
