At least 25 people were injured on Tuesday in multiple pile-ups on the M-2 motorway between Lahore and Islamabad.
According to rescue services. multiple vehicle collisions were reported at three different points – Kala Shah Kaku, Qila Sattar Shah and Khanpur – due to low visibility amid dense fog."Rescue 1122 responded to the call and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital," said a spokesperson for Rescue 1122 Sheikhupura.An official from the patrolling police told local media that the vehicles piled up on the M-2 motorway at Kala Shah Kaku and Qila Sattar Shah towns in Sheikhupura district due to dense fog.Several cars also collided with one another on the M-1 motorway in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to dense fog, leaving more than six people injured.Police and rescue teams rushed to the sites and shifted the injured to nearby hospitals
Media quoting hospitals’ officials said at least 10 of the injured got serious wounds and are being treated at the intensive care units.The police said that the accidents occurred after the visibility on the roads dropped sharply due to dense fog. All kinds of traffic were stopped from entering the motorways following the accidents.