Forty dead after overcrowded bus drops 80ft into a Pakistan ravine after ‘passenger grabbed driver by the neck’

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Forty dead after overcrowded bus drops 80ft into a Pakistan ravine after ‘passenger grabbed driver by the neck'.

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Forty people have died after an overcrowded bus dropped 80ft into a Pakistan ravine after a "passenger grabbed a driver by the neck".Another eight individuals were injured in the horror incident after the vehicle sped off a highway into a rocky ravine yesterday morning.A spokesman for Balochistan Government, Shahid Rind, confirmed the tragic incident in the Dana Sar mountain range, which is a remote region between the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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So far, all but three bodies have been identified.

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Emergency services said the bus had 48 passengers on board when it sped off the mountain edge.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Mr Rind explained the bus was holding its own passengers, as well as a group from another bus, which is said to be the cause of the conflict inside the bus.One survivor told local media from his hospital bed that those aboard the bus were so up in arms that the reckless row culminated in one of the passengers "grabbing the driver by the neck".As a...

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