TOBA TEK SINGH: At least 30 people were injured on their way to a shrine when the coaster van carrying them overturned near Jahangir Morr on Faisalabad-Samundri Road early on Friday.

As per Rescue 1122 officials, a group of residents of Chak 65 village of Sahiwal district were going to visit the shrine of Sufi Barkat Ali at Adda Dallowal.

Near Jahangir Morr, the van driver dozed off and the vehicle overturned, resulting in injuries to 30 passengers.

On being informed of the incident teams of Rescue1122 reached the spot and provided first aid to the injured passengers, shifting 22 of them to the Allied Hospital, Faisalabad.

As per the hospital doctors, seven of the passengers were in unstable condition.

LABOURER DIES: A labourer was crushed to death under the wheels of a truck on Friday near timber market on Jhang Road, Faisalabad.

Rescue 1122 officials say, identified as Ramzan of Chak 177-RB, the labourer was sitting on ground near the rear wheels of a parked truck when its driver suddenly reversed the vehicle. As a result, the labourer wascrushed under the truck`s wheels and was critically injured.

He was rushed to the Allied Hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.

Meanwhile, a man died and his brother was injured seriously when a bus hit a motorcycle at Adda Jhapal on Jhang Road.

According to Rescue 1122, Saifullah (35) and his brother Amanullah (24), both residents of Athara Hazari, Jhang, were going to Faisalabad on a motorcycle when it was hit by a bus.

As a result, Saifulla died on the spot, while Amanullah, who was injured, was shifted to the Allied Hospital.