Islamabad, July 3 -- At least 24 people were killed and 20 others injured after a passenger bus plunged into a deep ravine in the Sherani district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, local officials said.
Deputy Commissioner of the district Hazrat Wali Kakar said that the accident occurred in the Dhana Sar area of Sherani, close to the border between Balochistan's Sherani district and theDera Ismail Khan district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Police and rescue teams from both districts rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and the injured to nearby hospitals.
According to a rescue official, women and children were among those killed in the accident.
Local police told Xinhua that the accident occ...