At least five people died, and multiple were injured after a passenger bus overturned and plunged into a drainage channel near Fatehke in Pindi Bhattian, Punjab’s Hafizabad district, early on Thursday, Rescue 1122 said. The accident occurred near Fatehke Drain Bridge, with the emergency call received at 4:20am on October 29. According to eyewitnesses cited by Rescue 1122, the bus was travelling from Lahore to Chiniot when the driver reportedly became drowsy while making a U-turn, causing the vehicle to lose control and fall into the drainage channel. Rescue officials said emergency teams from Pindi Bhattian were immediately dispatched to the scene, including ambulance, motorcycle rescue, and fire services. According to the district rescue control room's report, 20 injured passengers were provided first aid before being shifted to Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital in Pindi Bhattian. The bodies of five deceased passengers were also shifted to the same hospital. The deceased were identified as 18-year-old Ahmad, son of Abdul Rauf; 20-year-old Adil, son of Arshid; 26-year-old Mazakar Mubeen, son of Nisar Ahmad; 27-year-old Arslan Farooq, son of Farooq; and 28-year-old Muhammad Ali, son of Sahab Khan. Rescue 1122 said a crane was arranged with the assistance of the local government to lift the bus from the drainage channel. The operation was supervised by District Emergency Officer Engineer Abdul Rasheed and was declared complete. Read: Bus plunge kills at least 40 passengers Last week, an inter-city bus met with a tragic accident on the Indus Highway near the Rajanpur district of Punjab, a mishap that resulted in the death of at least eleven passengers. Thirty-four passengers on the bus also suffered injuries. According to officials, the passenger bus was travelling from Karachi to DI Khan when it hit the concrete divider between two under-construction roads near Bangla Hidayat, a locality in the Rojhan tehsil of Rajanpur, located along the Indus Highway. Eyewitnesses said the impact of the collision was so intense that the bus overturned.