BUNER: Seven people were killed while three others were injured when a passenger van plunged into a ravine in Jabo, Buner district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday.
According to police, the vehicle was bound for Swari from Chagharzi, the financial hub of Buner district. A police official said the deceased included three people of a family. The bodies and injured persons were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital, Dagar.
An official of the district administration said the accident took place after a child sitting in the front seat of the vehicle pulled down the handbrake while the van was parked on a slope. The driver of the van had pulled up the handbrake and had stepped out of the vehicle. The child pulled the handbrake down, causing the vehicle to slide back and eventually fall in the ravine.
