FAISALABAD: As many as six people were killed while three others sustained multiple injuries in a car accident in the area of city Tandlianwala police station on Saturday.

Rescue 1122 spokesman said that a speedy car hit a tractor trolley in its rear as the car driver could not assess distance due to heavy fog on Motorway Interchange Tandlianwala road  near Chak No.393-GB here on late Friday night.

As a result, six people including three women and three children received serious injuries and died on the spot whereas Rescue 1122 shifted three others victims to Allied Hospital-I in critical condition.

Police teams rushed to the spot, dispatched the bodies to mortuary of Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital Tandlianwala, he added.

The bodies were also shifted to the mortuary for postmortem while the area police started investigation, he concluded.

According to the police spokesman, the accident took place in Tandlianwala area, where a car coming from Lahore, carrying children, women and a man, collided with a trolley loaded with sugarcane due to fog, resulting in the death of a woman, Rabia Bibi died along with her daughters 13-year-old Fajr, 11-year-old Amama, 6-year-old Yahya, one-year-old Musa and relative’s one-year-old Raees.

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Police officials say that after the accident, the driver of the tractor trolley fled from the spot and the search is underway.