At least 20 Muslim pilgrims die in Pakistan bus crash


  • World
  • Friday, 11 Jun 2021

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bus crammed with pilgrims coming back from a religious festival crashed in southwest Pakistan on Friday killing at least 20 and leaving 10 others critically injured, officials and a hospital doctor said.

The bus careened off the road into a ditch during the early morning in the Karkh area of Khuzdar district, in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan.

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