REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ISLAMABAD -- At least ten people were killed and 20 others injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on Saturday, local media reported.

Samaa TV said that eight people were killed and 15 others injured when a passenger van hit an oil tanker in Khuzdar district of the country's southwest Balochistan province.

The ill-fated van was on its way to the country's southern port city of Karachi from Khuzdar when it met the accident on the main highway.

Police said the bus driver was speeding and his carelessness caused the accident.

Rescue teams reached the scene and shifted the wounded to nearby hospitals.

In a separate accident in the country's east Punjab province, two people were killed and five others injured when a truck hit a car, said the report.

The injured people have been shifted to a nearby hospital where some of them are said to be in critical condition.

Road accidents frequently happen in Pakistan due to poorly maintained roads, violation of road safety rules and reckless driving.

Traffic police officials say that 90 percent of accidents in the country are caused merely by human errors.

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