{"id":72703,"date":"2025-05-01T21:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=72703"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:34:46","slug":"eight-family-members-died-as-car-fell-into-ravine-in-kohistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/eight-family-members-died-as-car-fell-into-ravine-in-kohistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight family members died as car fell into ravine in Kohistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOHISTAN: In a tragic event, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/4-dead-in-horrific-accident-on-makran-coastal-highway-near-lasbela\/\">eight members<\/a> of a family died as a Suzuki car fell into a deep ravine in the Matta Banda area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Lower <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/kohistan-fatwa-bars-women-from-election-campaigning\/\">Kohistan<\/a> district on Thursday, according to police officials.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased were from Rawalpindi and returning from Gilgit-Baltistan when their car plunged deep down the mountainous area in Matta Banda, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>The family includes four children, their father, mother, and two female relatives. The adults identified as Asif Iqbal, Maimuna Iqbal, Ayesha Siddique and Bushra Iqbal.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies were rescued by the locals and the rescue team, 1122 staff, and were taken to the district hospital in Pattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArrangements are being made to dispatch the bodies to Rawalpindi,\u201d said the rescue official.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, at least four people died, and others sustained injuries when a tractor-trolley fell into a deep gorge in the Ghanche district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Wednesday,\u00a0 according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened when a tractor-trolley loaded with labourers working on a construction site fell some 150-200 feet into a deep gorge, according to police spokesperson Ghulam Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the early morning near the Gulshan Kabir area of Ghanche district.<\/p>\n<p>According to police officials, the driver lost control of the tractor-trolley, resulting in four deaths and 16 injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOHISTAN: In a tragic event, eight members of a family died as a Suzuki car fell into a deep ravine in the Matta Banda area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Lower Kohistan district on Thursday, according to police officials. The deceased were from Rawalpindi and returning from Gilgit-Baltistan when their car plunged deep down the mountainous area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":72704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8989,277,28340],"class_list":["post-72703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-kpk","tag-accident","tag-kohistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72705,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72703\/revisions\/72705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}