42 dead in Pakistan road accident

KARACHI, Apr 20 (AFP): At least 42 people were killed and 17 wounded in southern Pakistan Sunday when a bus travelling to Karachi collided with a tractor-trailer, police said.

The dead included 14 children and 13 women, they said.

The accident happened in the town of Sukkur, 425 kilometres (266 miles) north of Karachi in the southern province of Sindh.

Fida Hussain Shah, a senior Sukkur police officer who gave the casualty figure, said the bus driver was killed on the spot while the driver of the tractor-trailer was wounded.

Police said the cause of the accident was yet not clear. All the dead and injured were riding in the bus, apart from the tractor driver.