Three children were killed and six others injured when their school van collided with a parked truck near Khanda Mor Adda Israni on Hasilpur Road on Friday. Dawn/File
BAHAWALPUR: Three children were killed and six others injured when their school van collided with a parked truck near Khanda Mor Adda Israni on Hasilpur Road near Khairpur Tamewali, about 40 kilometres from here, on Friday.
According to District Emergency Officer Baqir Hussain and police sources, a van was carrying nine schoolboys to Hasilpur when the driver could not spot the parked truck near Khanda Mor and the van collided with it. They said the truck also was not properly parked on roadside which resulted in the accident.