58 killed when bus, truck collide head-on in Pakistan

Nation's latest tragedy on the roads blamed on speeding bus, careless driver

A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in southern Pakistan killed 58 people on Tuesday, the local police said. The collision ignited a fuel fire. A rescuer later described how he carried out a survivor, a 4-year-old girl, from the burning bus.

The bus, which was carrying about 70 people, had left Swat Valley and was en route to the southern port city of Karachi when it rammed head-on into the truck near Khairpur district in Sindh province, police official Ghulam Jhokhio said.