'Overspeeding' truck dives into gorge killing 17 pioneers in Pakistan

 Travelers were on the way to a journey site in Balochistan when the accident occurred during Eid al-Fitr.

Volunteers in Karachi move the groups of pioneers killed following a truck mishap in Balochistan region [Rizwan Tabassum/AFP]

Something like 17 pioneers have been killed and 38 were harmed after their vehicle crashed while venturing out to a sanctuary in southwestern Pakistan, authorities said.

The mishap occurred at around 10pm (17:00 GMT) on Wednesday in the Center region of Balochistan territory, police said on Thursday.

"The truck was overspeeding and it left the driver's control while arranging a turn" and fell into a gorge in a sloping town as they moved toward the sanctuary, locale representative chief Munir Ahmed told the AFP news office.

They were headed to the Shah Noorani Sufi sanctum in the city of Khuzdar, Pakistan's First light paper revealed, when the mishap occurred during Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim occasion denoting the finish of the heavenly month of Ramadan.

Cop Sakro Wajid Ali said the driver, who was likewise harmed, was arrested.

Shaukat Jalbani, the representative clinical administrator of Center's fundamental clinic, affirmed the 17 passings and expressed the majority of the harmed had been shipped off Karachi for treatment.

Street mishaps with high fatalities are normal in Pakistan where security measures are careless, driver preparing is poor and transport foundation frequently dilapidated.

In January 2023, 41 individuals were killed when their traveler transport, which was likewise stacked with compartments of combustible oil, dove into a gorge in Balochistan region and burst into blazes.

In August that year, something like 30 individuals were killed and handfuls harmed after a train wrecked in southern Sindh territory.

Something like 22 travelers, including ladies and kids, were killed in 2022 after a speeding van drifted away from a restricted mountain street and plunged into a gorge north of Quetta in Balochistan.