Pakistani players' bus overturned in India, six hurt
Pakistan Times Sports Desk

LUDHIANA (India): Six Pakistani sportsmen were injured when a bus carrying them was overturned near Ludhiana while they were returning back home after participating in Punjab Games in Patiala, Indian TV reported on Sunday.

Pakistani players after participating the first Pakistan, India Punjab Games in Patiala were returning back to home when the bus carrying Pakistani players was overturned in a village near Ludhiana.

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Six Pakistani badminton players were injured Sunday in a bus accident near the northern Indian city of Ludhiana.

Two players, whose names were not immediately available, suffered head injuries but four others escaped with minor injuries when the bus overturned en route to the Wagah land border between India and Pakistan.

The bus on which the badminton players were traveling formed part of a 10-bus convoy taking athletes from the Indian city of Patiala to the Pakistan border.

The athletes were returning after participating in the inaugural East-West Punjab Games featuring athletes from the Punjab provinces in India and Pakistan that concluded in Patiala on Saturday.

“Scans were done on the two players who suffered head injuries before they resumed the journey back home,” said Anurag Verma, Ludhiana’s deputy commissioner.

Verma said two ambulances would accompany the convoy of busses till the Wagah border. The second edition of the East-West Punjab Games will be staged next year in Pakistan.●