Bus plunges into ditch, killing 20 in flood-hit southern Pakistan

At least 20 people have been killed in Pakistan’s flood-hit south after a minibus crashed into a deep and water-logged ditch.

The vehicle crashed late on Thursday in Sehwan region of the southern Sindh province, local police official Khadim Hussain told AFP news agency.

“The driver could not see the diversion sign on the road and so the van plunged into a 25-foot [8 metres] deep ditch” near the town of Sehwan Sharif, Hussain said on Friday.

 Eleven children aged between two and eight years were killed in the crash, police said. A further 14 people were injured, two of them in critical condition. Police officer Imran Qureshi told The Associated Press news agency the van was bringing passengers from Khairpur district to a famous Sufi shrine in Sehwan.