“The bus hardly crossed the Chakri Interchange when it overturned and fell into a gorge,” a motorway police official told Dawn. It was about 12:30pm on Sunday, July 13, 2025, on the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway (M2) near Chakri, in Chakwal district.
The bus, run by Haji Abdul Sattar Company, was going from Rawalpindi to Multan with 41 passengers. Five of them died where the bus landed. A sixth died at the District Headquarters Hospital in Chakwal. Four of the six dead were women. Twenty-seven others were hurt, among them women and children.
Early counts varied. Aaj News, citing initial reports, put the toll at five dead and 41 injured, with 42 people aboard. The numbers above are Dawn’s, which came after the hospital death.
Rescue and the dead
Rescue 1122 teams from Rawalpindi and Chakwal, motorway police and the Frontier Works Organisation took the injured to hospitals in Chakwal, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Seven critically injured patients went to the DHQ hospital Rawalpindi and the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad.
The dead included Zaffar Iqbal, 40, Sameena Nasir, 50, Marij Fahim, 18, and Naveeda Naheed, 40. Two bodies had not been identified. The passengers came from Multan, Mian Channu, Jhang, Khanewal, Taxila, Azad Kashmir and Wah Cantt.
Driver blamed
It was raining and the road was slippery. Police said that was no excuse. “The accident occurred due to the negligence of the driver who managed to flee the scene,” an official said. A woman who survived told rescue staff the driver had been speeding. A case has been registered against him at Chakri police station, and police said they would arrest him.
Sources
- Bus crash on M2 near Chakri (Dawn)
- Five dead, 41 injured as bus overturns near Chakri interchange (Aaj News)
