MANSEHRA: A man was killed, and three others sustained injuries when a car collided head-on with a jeep on the MansehraNaran-Jalkhad Road in the Kappi Galli area of Balakot on Saturday.
The car was travelling from the Paras area to Balakot when the driver lost control due to overspeeding, resulting in the collision with the jeep.
Four people were injured.
A Rescue 1122 team shifted the injured to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, Balakot, where doctors pronouncedMohammad Asif dead.
After providing emergency treatment, doctors referred the three injured to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, Mansehra, where the condition of one of them was stated to be critical.
Meanwhile, a man who suffered burns in a gas cylinder explosion in Oghi earlier this week succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
Mohammad Waseem, his wife and his mother had sustained burns in the explosion.
Earlier, Waseem’s wife had also succumbed to her injuries, according to doctors.