CHINIOT: Thirteen people were killed while three others received injuries when a passenger van collided with a truck at Tahirabad, Lahore-Chiniot Road on Monday night.
According to District Police Officer Rao Qamar Zia, the truck collided with the van coming from Islamabad to Chiniot.
After the collision, the CNG cylinder of the van exploded.
The injured were shifted to DHQ Hospital in a critical condition.
The names of the victims could not be known so far. The police and rescue teams reached on the spot to recover the dead bodies.
In March earlier this year, 17 children had been killed in eastern Pakistan’s Gujrat region after a faulty gas cylinder on a bus exploded.