20 Killed in Pakistan When Speeding Bus Hits Oil Tanker

Rescue workers shift a body of a victim, who was killed after a passenger bus and an oil tanker collided and caught fire, from an ambulance outside Nishtar Hospital in Multan, Pakistan on Aug.16, 2022. Arshad Raza Zaidi/Reuters

LAHORE, Pakistan—A speeding bus collided with an oil tanker in Pakistan, killing 20 people in a fiery crash overnight, police and rescue officials said on Tuesday.

“Three buses were racing. One of them rammed into an oil tanker,” police official Imran Shaukat told Reuters, describing the incident on a motorway near the central city of Multan.