Disasters · Uthal road collisionUthal bus accident: At least 12 dead after coach and minibus collide head-onAired October 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTCWritten October 23, 2026 at 1:04 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07A coach and minibus collided head-on near Uthal, killing at least 12 people.0:12Police say seven died at the scene and five in hospital.0:14Injured passengers were transferred to Karachi.0:17The urgent uncertainty is their condition and the full casualty count.0:20The collision happened on Friday, October 23rd, in Pakistan's Balochistan province.0:25Most of the casualties were in the minibus.0:27The account identifying 12 people killed lists 5 women and 7 men.0:31The vehicles collided at zero point near Uthal, in Lasbella district on the Kedah0:36Karachi Highway.0:37The coach was traveling from Gwadar to Karachi.0:40Karachi also became the onward destination for injured passengers after their first0:45treatment closer to the crash.0:46Edi workers took around 22 injured passengers to hospital before they were0:50transferred to Karachi for treatment.0:52Abdul Hakeem Lassi, who runs the EDI Center in Beila, gave that figure.0:56He described seven injured passengers as being in serious condition.1:00Those transfers show how far the medical response reaches beyond the collision site,1:04but the number moved to Karachi covers a particular group of patients.1:07and the overall injury figures differ.1:09A separate count puts the injured above 25 and describes many as critical.1:14Another gives 12 deaths and more than 20 injured.1:17Those injury totals and the roughly 22 transfers may cover different groups.1:21They can't be added together to produce a reliable total.1:24One count describes more than 20 people as seriously injured.1:27Lassie put that number at 7.1:29That same competing account gives 11 deaths against the police minimum of 12.1:33There's no clear explanation for those differences, so they don't show a confirmed1:37change in the toll.1:38Police describe the minibus as traveling from Bela to Karachi, but its direction1:42remains disputed, both that route and the coach's journey name Karachi as the1:46destination.1:47Those descriptions leave the vehicle's approach to the head-on collision1:50unexplained.1:51Police haven't said what caused the collision or who was responsible.1:54The casualty figures remain provisional, while the condition of the injured remains1:58unresolved.1:59There's been no further confirmed medical update on the seven passengers Lossi2:03described as serious.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗
