At least 62 people including women and children have been killed in southern Pakistan when their bus collided with an oil tanker.
Initial reports said the tanker was travelling on the wrong side of the road along a dilapidated stretch of highway, police said on Sunday.
It was the second crash involving major loss of life in Sindh province in less than three months.
Authorities transferred the remains to a local morgue after taking samples for DNA testing in order to identify them.
Doctor Semi Jamali at Karachi's Jinnah hospital said another four passengers with minor injuries have been discharged.
The bodies were "completely burnt and stuck to each other", she earlier told AFP.
The overloaded bus was en route to the town of Shikarpur from the southern port city of Karachi when the collision occurred.
"I was sitting on top of the bus when I saw a tanker hit it, and a minute later it caught fire," said Ikhtiyar Ali.
"There were three of us on the roof of the bus. We jumped to the ground to save our lives when we saw the fire."
The tanker was carrying oil and a compressed natural gas cylinder was fitted in the bus, said Talib Husain, a relative of one of the victims.
"After the collision the bus caught fire and, as a result, the CNG cylinder exploded," Husain said. "One passenger bravely smashed the window from inside and rescued his family while the bus was on fire."
Senior police official Rao Muhammad Anwaar said the bus "hit the oil tanker, which according to initial reports was coming in the wrong direction" and caught fire.
Another senior police official, Aamir Shiekh said it appeared that the poor condition of the single-track road contributed to the accident.
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