He also acknowledged that there may have been a failure on part of the motorway authorities in properly checking the overloaded bus and remarked that an investigation was being conducted.
Reports suggest the overloaded capacity of the bus may have caused the driver to lose full control of the vehicle and subsequently experience a brake failure.
[6] Pakistan has one of the worst records in traffic accidents and conduct, blamed on poor road infrastructure and faulty vehicles.
The deadly incident immediately received national media coverage in the wake of the high casualties resulting from it.
[2] Some angry and infuriated people threw stones at district government officials and local parliamentarians who visited the school.
[5] The federal Minister of Communications Arbab Alamgir Khan called up a three-member committee to determine and investigate the causes of the bus accident.