MANDI BAHAUDDIN: At least seven people were killed and several others sustained injuries as a passenger van caught fire after collision with tractor-trolley.

Rescue sources said due to severe fog, a Lahore-bound passenger van crashed with a tractor-trolley, loaded with sugarcane- at Phalian round-about. As a result, the van caught fire leaving seven people dead.

Several others including women and children sustained injuries. The dead and injured were shifted to tehsil hospital.

The rescue team has put down the fire.