A female journalist was crushed to death by a vehicle carrying former prime minister Imran Khan in an accident in eastern Pakistan, as he led a convoy along with his supporters towards the capital
The incident prompted Khan to halt the"long march" that he is leading towards Islamabad to pressure the federal government into calling snap elections.
, party officials and journalists said. "Shocked & deeply saddened by the terrible accident that led to the death of Channel 5 reporter Sadaf Naeem during our March today," Khan said on Twitter.Journalist Qazzafi Butt, who witnessed the incident, told Reuters that Naeem, 40, lost her balance has she tried to climb onto Khan's truck to get a sound bite from the former premier.The wheel of the truck ran over her head as she fell on the road, he said.