Twenty-two wedding guests were killed when the “rickshaw” they were riding on fell into a canal in northwest Pakistan, police said at the end of Wednesday. the rescue operation.
Twenty-nine people were in the overloaded three-wheeler when the crash happened near the town of Dera Ismail Khan on Monday.
“We found 22 bodies, those of 16 women and six children,” police official Muhammad Ramzan told AFP.
Seven people were rescued.
The victims were from the same extended family, and at least seven from the same family home, he said.
Rickshaws are a common form of transportation in Pakistan, and accidents are common.
Pakistan is one of the countries in the world with the highest number of fatal traffic accidents.