At least 19 people including 17 children are dead after a school van smashed head-on into a heavy truck in Pakistan.
The van collided with the loaded dump-truck near the town of Nawabshah, around 270 kilometres north of Karachi in the southern province of Sindh on Wednesday.
The children, who were students of the Bright Future School from the nearby town of Daulatpur, had come to Nawabshah for a school trip.
Their van was on its way back to Daulatpur when the accident happened.
"We have 19 dead bodies out of which 17 are children," said doctor Hashim Langa, chief of the government-run Civil Hospital in Nawabshah.
"Their ages range from five or six to 16," he told AFP.
Apart from the dead, some 15 to 20 injured were also brought to the hospital, he added.
Police said that reckless driving might have caused the tragic accident.
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