HARRIPUR: Four young men were killed and others injured when two cars collided with an oil tanker near Sarai Saleh in Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to media reports.
The victims were travelling back to Haripur after having a meal in Abbottabad. They were friends and were travelling in two separate cars when the accident occurred.
According to the reports, one car first collided with the oil tanker near Sarai Saleh. The second car then went out of control and crashed into the tanker.
The deceased were identified as 23-year-old Umar Mehtab, 28-year-old Shamir Javed, 19-year-old Saifur Rehman and 25-year-old Ahsan Shah. All four belonged to the Darvesh Mohalla Khajuran Wala neighbourhood of Haripur.
Rescue 1122 teams reached the scene and shifted the bodies and injured people to the Haripur Trauma Centre, where the injured received medical treatment.
The accident plunged the area into mourning, with families and residents grieving the loss of four young men from the same neighbourhood.
