GWADAR: At least three people died and 19 others were injured in a head-on collision between a dumper truckandapassengercoach in the Belar Kolanch area of Gwadar district on Wednesday evening.

According to Levies officials, the coach going from Mand in Kech district to Karachi rammed into the dumper coming from the opposite direction. Driver Badal Khan, cleaner Muhammad Akhtar and a passenger, Mansoor, died.

A woman and children were among the 19 passengers injured in the accident.

They were brought to the district hospital in Gwadar.

Some of the severely injured were later sent to Karachi.