Death toll from Pakistan bus accident climbs to 26

The death toll from a passenger bus accident in northern Pakistan has climbed to 26, a local official said on Wednesday.

"The death toll has increased to 26 while one woman remained unhurt in the accident," Muhammad Zubair, a local police official of the Diamer district in northwestern Gilgit-Baltistan region, told Anadolu over the phone.

Last evening, a bus carrying a wedding party fell into the Indus River in Pakistan's northeastern Gilgit-Baltistan region.