Pakistan bus catches fire, dozen kids among dead

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 14, 2022 12:09 am

KARACHI, Pakistan: At least 18 Pakistanis, including 12 children, were killed in a bus fire as they journeyed home after fleeing catastrophic monsoon flooding, officials and rescue workers said on Thursday.

The South Asian nation has been hit by unprecedented monsoon rains this year, putting a third of it underwater, displacing eight million people, and causing $28 billion worth of devastation.

BURNED BUS Volunteers gather beside a charred bus on a highway in Nooriabad town, Sindh province, southern Pakistan on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. AP PHOTO

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