KARACHI, Oct 23: Ten vehicles — four cars and six motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Tuesday, police said.
Three cars were hijacked in Gizri, New Town and Gulbahar. Another was stolen in Ferozabad.
Two motorcycles were hijacked in Khwaja Ajmair Nagri. Four others were stolen in Eidgah, Mithadar, Civil Lines and Sharea Faisal.
Police also claimed on Tuesday to have recovered six vehicles in the city.
ACCIDENT: A young man died in a road accident in the city.
Police said Mohammed Shahid, aged 22, died when a minibus (JE-1061) of route U in which he was travelling, after violating a traffic signal, collided with a bus (JA-6645) of route 11-C at Lucky Star in Saddar.
Police said Shahid was the conductor of the minibus. Another passenger on the bus Altaf, aged 20, was injured in the accident. Both were rushed to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced Shahid dead on arrival. Altaf was admitted to the hospital.
A woman was seriously serious injured when she fell from the bus she was travelling in and came beneath its rare wheels, on M. A. Jinnah Road. Police said Shahnaz Akhtar, aged 50, fell from a bus (JE-0607) of route 4-K when the driver suddenly applied brakes near Radio Pakistan. She had been admitted to Civil Hospital where she was stated to be in serious condition.
Police said the woman, with her son and husband, had boarded the bus in New Karachi. The bus-driver escaped after the accident, police said.
Six passengers suffered minor injuries when the passenger coach they were travelling in overturned in Korangi. Police said a rashly-driven Ilyas coach (PE-4923) hit a footpath and overturned in Korangi No 3.
