Peshawar, Dec 5 (PTI) At least seven people, including children and a woman, were killed while 12 others injured in a head-on collision accident between a mini bus and a loaded truck in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday, police said.

The accident occurred when the truck loaded with cement bags was trying to overtake a vehicle but collided head on with the passenger bus coming from the opposite direction.

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“The rescue teams rushed to the site and retrieved the dead bodies and injured from the mini bus,” a police official said.

The injured were immediately shifted to the District Headquarter hospital Nowshera.

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