At least 18 folks have died and 16 are injured after a bus caught fireplace within the jap Punjab province of Pakistan.

The automobile, which was heading to the capital of Islamabad, hit a van that was parked on the exhausting shoulder of the intercity motorway earlier than bursting into flames on Sunday morning.

The drivers of each autos died, in line with police.

The van was carrying three barrels of petrol, which induced an inferno that engulfed each the bus and van, senior police officer Fahad Ahmed mentioned.

There have been greater than 40 passengers on the bus.

Several passengers are in a vital situation after being badly burned.

Others have been compelled to flee the bus by the home windows, affected by minor burns.

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Deadly collisions are widespread in Pakistan, the place visitors guidelines are not often adopted and roads in lots of rural areas are in poor situation.

More than 40 people died in January after a bus fell right into a ravine and caught fireplace within the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan.