MANSEHRA: Six people, including three transgender persons, were killed and eight suffered critical injures when a wagon carrying a musical group fell into a deep ravine in Pulrah area of Mansehra district on Wednesday.

The group was returning to Taxila after performing at a wedding function in Pulrah area of Mansehra.

`We were on the way back to Taxila in the morning after performing at a night wedding function when the driver lost control of our wagon on Muhar Road and causing it to fall into ravine,` Mohammad Adnan, a member of music group, told reporters at a hospital.

He said the local residents shiftedallpassengers to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where doctors pronounced six of them, including three transgender persons, dead.

Of those transvestites, Danish belonged to Karachi and the others, including Naseem alias Guddo and Shahzad alias Phool, to Taxila.

The other deceased included Khursheed of Haripur, Zafar Iqbal of Taxila and an unidentified person.

The police registered an FIR, arrested the wagon`s driver, and began investigation to ascertain the exact cause of the accident.

Transgender persons later took to the streets and blocked Abbottabad Road to demand free airplane ticket for the transportation of the body of their community member, Danish, to Karachi.

Led by Shemale Association Hazara division president Maria Khan, demonstrators placed the cofñn on the road and shouted slogans against the district government.

They later dispersed peacefully saying they would send the body to Karachi by themselves.