Seven persons were killed and eight others injured in two separate road accidents in Sahiwal and Nowshera on Saturday.

Four people were killed and seven others received burnt injuries when a passenger van caught fire due to gas leakage on national high in Sahiwal.

In another, accident three persons of a same family were killed and another injured when their car fell into a deep ravine in Akbarpura area of district Nowshera on Peshawar Islamabad motorway today.

The injured have been shifted to nearby hospitals.