, July 3 -- At least 24 people were killed and 20 others injured after a passenger bus plunged into a deep ravine in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, local officials said.

The accident took place in the Dhana Sar area of Sherani district, near the border between Balochistan's Sherani district and the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Deputy Commissioner Hazrat Wali Kakar told Xinhua.

Police and rescue teams from both districts rushed to the scene and took the victims to nearby hospitals.

A rescue official said the dead included women and children.

According to local police, the bus was travelling from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, to Peshawar when the driver lost control wh...