ISLAMABAD: A landslide at Tangoos area in Gilgit-Baltistan region has hit a passenger van today leaving 14 people in the vehicle dead.
According to the rescue sources, the relief operation has been completed and all dead bodies have been retrieved from the wreckage and shifted to nearby hospital.
Assistant Commissioner Rondau informed that this ill-fated passenger van was traveling from Rawalpindi to Skardu when the incident took place in midnight at Tangoos, destroying the vehicle.
The incident took place at 3:00 AM in the morning, local sources said.
Rescue teams and security personnel rushed to the scene and launched a rescue operation to remove the rubble and retrieve passengers of the van under the debris.
The teams of Rescue 1122, Police and FWO had been engaged in rescue and relief operation, local officials said. (With input from INP)
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