{"id":24534,"date":"2026-10-22T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/pakistan-punjab-bus-overturns-10-killed-44-injured-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:09:22","slug":"pakistan-punjab-bus-overturns-10-killed-44-injured-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/pakistan-punjab-bus-overturns-10-killed-44-injured-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus overturns in Pakistan\u2019s Punjab, killing 10 and injuring 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 people were killed and 44 others injured after a passenger bus overturned in Rajanpur district in Pakistan\u2019s Punjab province. The incident occurred around Wednesday evening, October 21, when the bus lost control and overturned after hitting a roadside curb.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the victims included seven men, two women and one girl. Of the injured, 38 are being treated at a local hospital, while four seriously wounded people have been transferred to Dera Ghazi Khan city hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Local police officials said the main cause of the crash was the bus driver, whose speeding and carelessness led to the tragedy. The driver fled the scene after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic accidents, particularly on highways in Pakistan\u2019s Punjab province, remain a major challenge to road safety because of violations of traffic rules and persistent driver negligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger bus overturned in Pakistan\u2019s Punjab province, killing 10 people and injuring 44, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}