Disasters · Rajanpur bus crashRajanpur bus accident: Eight or nine dead, 32 to 36 injured in conflicting countsAired October 21, 2026 at 6:33 AM UTCWritten October 21, 2026 at 6:37 AM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07A passenger bus struck a divider and overturned, killing passengers and injuring0:11dozens.0:12Women and children are among the injured, and emergency teams have taken passengers0:16to hospital.0:17The final casualty count and the cause of the crash are still unclear.0:21The bus was carrying passengers from Karachi toward Dehr Ghazi Khan.0:25It overturned on the Indus Highway near Bangla Haidayat in Pakistan's Rajampur0:29district.0:30The crash location has only been identified broadly, without a precise road marker.0:35The death count ranges from eight people killed at the scene to at least nine killed0:38overall.0:39The injury figures also conflict at 32 and 36.0:43A final official casualty count hasn't been confirmed.0:46Eight deaths at the scene and at least nine overall could describe different stages0:50of an emergency, but nobody has confirmed that sequence here, so those figures can't0:54be treated as a rising toll.0:56An earlier figure of 10 deaths hasn't been confirmed.0:59That figure included a claim that two passengers died during treatment, but those1:03additional deaths haven't been confirmed either.1:05The largest number can't simply become the final toll.1:08Rescue 1122 teams reached the crash site, recovered bodies, and evacuated injured1:13passengers.1:14People needing further treatment were taken to hospitals, while others with minor1:17injuries received first aid beside the road.1:2020 injured passengers were taken to hospital, and 12 with minor injuries were1:24treated at the scene.1:25Together, those figures account for the 32-person injury total.1:29They leave the separate count of 36 injuries unresolved.1:32We don't yet know how the injured passengers are doing.1:35The number of people aboard the bus also remains unknown, so adding the conflicting1:39casualty figures wouldn't give a reliable passenger total.1:42Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz reportedly called for treatment of the injured1:47and action against those responsible details.1:49Of any measures carried out under that direction, haven't been confirmed.1:53The bus hit a road divider before it overturned.1:55That sequence describes how the vehicle crashed.1:58Nobody has explained what caused it to strike the divider, and no finding has2:02assigned responsibility.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗