Multan Deputy Commissioner Tahir Wattoo confirmed the incident in an announcement, saying that the passenger bus, which was travelling from Lahore to Karachi, hit the oil tanker from the rear aspect at Jalalpur Peerwala interchange on the motorway.
A fireplace erupted after the collision and 20 folks died on the spot, the assertion added.
Later, Multan Commissioner Amir Khattak additionally confirmed the event in a tweet. He mentioned the accident had taken place round 4am.
Images shared by him confirmed that the bus and the oil tanker have been utterly burnt within the incident.
At 4am at motorway obarra junobi horrible accident occurred between bus LES -1211- 09 and Oil TankerLDA/6. Bus that was transferring from Lahore to Karachi hit oil Tanker from bottom and fireplace erupted.06X individuals bought Injured and 20X died on the spot.On spot monitoring rescue course of pic.twitter.com/r87E2OvvmF
— Commissioner Multan (@CommissionerMu2) August 16, 2022