Director General (DG) Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Punjab Faisal Fareed said on Friday that Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi enhanced financial assistance for flood-damaged concrete homes from Rs 100,000 to 400,000 while the financial assistance for damaged mud houses was set at Rs 200,000
Bus, truck collision kills 31 in Dera Ghazi Khan
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Deadly accident in Dera Ghazi Khan claims 31 lives.
Bus traveling from Sialkot to Rajanpur collides with a truck on Taunsa Road near Jhok Yaro in Dera Ghazi Khan.
More than 60 people injured. Thirty-one people were killed and 74 injured when a passenger bus and truck collided in Punjab province early on Monday morning, rescue and hospital officials said.
Rescue officials said the accident occurred when a bus was in collision with a container truck at about 5.40 am (0040 GMT) in Dera Ghazi Khan district 466 km (289 miles) south east of Lahore.
The injured and dead were taken to a nearby hospital by the rescue service.
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