11 killed as bus carrying 70 Pakistani pilgrims from Iran falls into ravine in Balochistan

Karachi: Two separate bus accidents hours apart in Pakistan on Sunday left at least 35 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said.  The first happened when a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims returning from Iraq through Iran fell from a highway into a ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 11 people and injuring 32 others, police and officials said. Hours later, 29 people were killed when a bus fell into a ravine in Kahuta district in the eastern Punjab province, police and officials said.

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