Pakistan bus crash kills 42

Security officials inspect the wreckage of a passenger bus at the scene of an accident in Pano Aqil, Pakistan on Sunday. At least 42 passengers were killed when a passenger bus overturned after a collision with a truck in Pano Aqil in Sindh province. -EPA

KARACHI: A speeding passenger bus smashed into a tractor-trailer in southern Pakistan Sunday, killing 42 people including 14 children and injuring more than a dozen others with many in critical condition, police said.

Several passengers were trapped inside the pink bus that was left badly mangled after the high-speed crash in the town of Sukkur, 425 kilometres (266 miles) north of Karachi in the province of Sindh.