Eleven people were killed and 33 others injured when a passenger bus travelling from Multan to Kasur collided with a truck on Depalpur Road near Pakpattan on Thursday, 5 November 2026. The Pakpattan bus crash happened near a stop known as 17 SP Stop, and rescue teams worked through the night to free passengers trapped in the wreckage.
The dead included two men in uniform — Ali Hasnain of the Patrolling Police and Zahid Imam of the Para Force — according to the Express Tribune. The injured were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Pakpattan, where an emergency was declared and extra doctors were called in. The death toll may still rise as the injured are treated.
What happened on Depalpur Road
The bus was on its way from Multan to Kasur when it met the truck coming from the opposite direction on Depalpur Road, Rescue 1122 said. The service’s spokesperson, Umair Iqbal, told reporters the collision took place near 17 SP Stop, a local landmark on the road outside Pakpattan.
The impact was severe enough to trap passengers inside the wreckage. Rescue teams brought in heavy machinery, including cranes, to cut passengers free, and the operation was still under way late on Thursday night, the Express Tribune reported shortly before midnight.
The 33 injured were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital in Pakpattan and nearby medical facilities. Rescue 1122 has not said how many of the injured are in critical condition, and the figures it gave at the time of reporting may change as treatment continues.
One detail differs between the early accounts. Pakistan Today described one of those killed as a Rescue 1122 official, while the Express Tribune named him as Patrolling Police officer Ali Hasnain and identified the second uniformed victim as Zahid Imam of the Para Force. The Tribune’s account, which names both men and their units, is the more specific of the two, and this report follows it.
Official response: CM seeks report, leaders condole
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz expressed grief over the deaths, sought a report on the collision and directed the district administration to ensure the best possible medical treatment for the injured. She offered condolences to the bereaved families, including those of the Para Force member and the patrolling police officer.
On her instructions, Pakpattan Deputy Commissioner Asif Raza went to the hospital, declared an emergency at the District Headquarters Hospital and called in additional doctors and medical staff.
President Asif Ali Zardari and National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq also expressed condolences over the loss of life and prayed for the recovery of the injured.
Punjab’s deadly roads: the wider toll
The Pakpattan bus crash is the second collision in just over two weeks to kill 10 or more people on a Punjab road. On 21 October, a Karachi-to-Dera Ghazi Khan passenger bus overturned after striking a divider on the Indus Highway near Bangla Hidayat in Rajanpur, killing 10 passengers and injuring 35. Between the two crashes, at least 21 people have died.
The provincial numbers behind those cases are far larger. Rescue 1122 recorded 44,797 road accidents across Punjab in October alone, with 464 people killed and 23,543 seriously injured, the Express Tribune reported, citing the emergency service’s data. Motorcycles were involved in nearly one-third of the crashes. Lahore recorded the highest number, with 7,874 incidents involving 8,833 motorcycles, followed by Multan with 2,838 crashes and Faisalabad with 2,615. Taunsa Sharif recorded the fewest, with 142 incidents.
Against that baseline, the 11 deaths on Depalpur Road amount to just over 2 per cent of the provincial toll recorded for the whole of October — a measure of how routine, and how lethal, serious crashes on Punjab’s roads have become. The Express Tribune, citing road-safety experts, attributes the provincial toll to rash driving, rising vehicle ownership and inadequate pedestrian infrastructure. Those are general explanations rather than findings about Thursday’s collision.
Long-distance passenger routes have produced a series of comparable disasters this year. On 7 January, a Rawalpindi-to-Bahawalpur bus plunged into a ravine near Dhoke Pathan in Chakwal’s Talagang tehsil, killing five people. In July, a coach crash near Zhob in Balochistan killed 40 people; Balochistan’s government registered a case against the coach company and opened an inquiry after that crash.
What is still not known
Neither Rescue 1122 nor the district administration has said publicly what caused Thursday’s collision. The available accounts establish where the vehicles met, which direction each was travelling and how many people were hurt, but not whether speed, overtaking, driver fatigue, a mechanical fault or the condition of the road contributed.
No details of a first information report or of any investigation have been released. It is not publicly known whether either driver survived, whether either was among the injured, or what condition the bus and the truck were in before the impact.
For now, the confirmed facts are the location near 17 SP Stop, the two vehicles, the toll reported by Rescue 1122 and the official response. The cause remains open — and with 33 people still being treated, the toll itself may yet change.
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