At least 13 passengers were burnt to death and six others sustained severe injuries when a passenger van they were travelling caught fire after an accident at M9 motorway, it was learnt on Saturday.According to motorway police, the ill-fated passenger van overturned near cement factory after the vehicle’s tie-rod end collapsed. The van caught fire due to a short circuit. Rescue officials, after being informed rushed to the scene and shifted the bodies and the injured to Nooriabad hospital. A passenger van, carrying 22 passengers, was coming from Hyderabad to Karachi when it overturned near a cement factory–40 kilometers away from Karachi toll plaza.
At least eight passengers died on the spot.
