By Aamir Latif
KARACHI, Pakistan
Eleven people have been killed and 34 injured after high-voltage electric wires fell on a passenger bus in southern Pakistan Sunday morning, police said.
All eleven died of severe burn injuries as the ill-fated bus caught fire after 11,000-volt wires landed on it in the remote Dadu district of southern Sindh province, Irfan Baluch, a city police official told reporters.
Authorities apprehend a rise in death toll as most of injured suffer from serious burn wounds.
Doctors said several injured were brought to hospital with 40 to 50 percent burns over their bodies.
The passengers were traveling after having attended a wedding ceremony.
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