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                      Pakistan Tanker, Bus Crash Kills 57

   by VOA News

   Authorities in Pakistan say an oil tanker apparently speeding in the
   wrong direction struck a passenger bus head-on early Sunday, killing at
   least 57 people near the southern port city of Karachi.

   A senior police official said the collision occurred along a stretch of
   bad road, engulfing both vehicles in flames on impact.  The victims
   included women and children, most of them burned beyond recognition.
   Officials say the death toll could rise.

   Authorities say a few people escaped the inferno by jumping out of bus
   windows.

    It also quotes a doctor at a Karachi hospital as saying the death toll
   may rise.

   Pakistan is notorious for fatal traffic accidents with many of them
   attributed to poor roads, reckless driving and poorly maintained
   vehicles.

   Sunday, television footage showed live scenes of the crash site with
   rescue workers evacuating bodies and survivors from the wreckage.
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