{"id":50629,"date":"2026-07-03T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50629"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:46:25","slug":"at-least-40-dead-after-bus-falls-into-ravine-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/at-least-40-dead-after-bus-falls-into-ravine-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 40 dead after bus falls into ravine in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A bus veered off a road and fell more than 20 metres into a ravine in western Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 40 people, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A passenger bus travelling from Quetta to Peshawar plunged into a deep ravine in the mountainous Dana Sar area&#8230; 40 people have been confirmed dead and 11 others injured,&#8221; said Sanaullah Sherani, the head of Zhob district&#8217;s emergency centre.<\/p>\n<p>Sherani said the injured passengers had been taken to hospital, three of them in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bus fell approximately 70 to 80 feet (21 to 24 metres) into the ravine,&#8221; Sherani added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the accident occurred in a rugged mountainous area, rescue teams faced significant difficulties during the initial phase of the operation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shahid Rind, the spokesperson for the southwestern province of Balochistan&#8217;s chief minister, also said the bus had been travelling from the provincial capital Quetta to the city of Peshawar in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams from both provinces were at the scene, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Road accidents are common in Pakistan due to weak enforcement of traffic laws, speeding, poor road safety standards and reckless driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bus veered off a road and fell more than 20 metres into a ravine in western Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 40 people, officials said. &#8220;A passenger bus travelling from Quetta to Peshawar plunged into a deep ravine in the mountainous Dana Sar area&#8230; 40 people have been confirmed dead and 11 others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50631,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50629\/revisions\/50631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}