ISLAMABAD: At least 12 people, including
six members of a family, were killed and scores of others injured in separate traffic mishaps due to dense fog in various areas of Punjab.
According to a private TV news channel, six people of a family were killed when their car plunged into a canal on Shujaabad Road near Multan due to dense fog. The bodies wer
e taken out immediately after the rescue agencies reached the site.
In another incident, a tractor-trolley hit a motor
cycle in Vehari, killing two persons on the spot. Two brothers were crushed to death by a dumper on Sargodha Road near Sillanwali, while four passengers were injured in collision between a bus and a tractor-trolley in Narowal.
Meanwhile, the Met Office has predicted rain with snowfall over hills at isolated places in Malakand, Hazara divisions,
upper FATA, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
According to Met Office, cold and dry weather is expected elsewhere in the country. Dense foggy conditions are likely to prevail over plain areas of K
hyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and
upper Sindh, it said.
