NAWABSHAH: An oil tanker driver was killed in a road accident near Nawabshah on Sunday.

According to police, an oil tanker carrying 50,000 liters of petrol was going to Lahore from Karachi when it went out of driver’s control and fell into the Rain Canal along National Highway Qazi Ahmad, near Nawabshah.

Police and rescue officials rushed to scene and shifted the body of the driver to a local hospital for medico-legal formalities. Heavy machinery was called to pull out the oil tanker from the canal.