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At least 51 people have been killed in two separate transport crashes in western Pakistan, when a bus plunged off a bridge and a boat carrying a class of children capsized.
Forty-one people are so far confirmed dead after their bus crashed into a ravine in south-western Balochistan province on Sunday, while at least 10 students died in the boating accident in north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said.
Up to nine people were still missing in the waters, local police said, with a rescue operation under way.
At the remote site of the bus crash, north of the city of Bela in Lasbela district, senior administration official Hamza Anjum said 40 bodies were retrieved from the wreck along with three injured, one of whom died shortly afterwards. The remaining two survivors were in “serious” condition.
