KARACHI: Reckless driving claims three lives: Man commits suicide
By Our Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 5: A young man committed suicide in Bin Qasim area on Monday.
The police said that Qamar Abbas, 35, hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his house in Shah Latif Town, Pipri. He was a motor mechanic and bachelor. He hailed from Faisalabad. The body was sent to Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre for post-mortem.
ROAD ACCIDENTS: Reckless driving claimed three lives in the city on Monday.
One passenger died and five others were injured when a passenger coach (Afridi coach: PE-4596) overturned while negotiating a turn near the KFC outlet in Korangi Industrial Area. Nasir, aged 20, died on the spot, the police said.
The five injured passengers, Ghulam Murtaza, Shahbaz, Riaz, Amir Mukhtar and Mohammed Idrees, had been admitted to the JPMC. The body of Nasir was sent to the hospital for post-mortem, the police said.
The driver of the coach escaped, but the police claimed to have impounded the vehicle.
A young cyclist died when he was knocked down by a recklessly-driven passenger coach (Afridi coach: PE-4223) in Korangi Industrial Area. The police said that a young cyclist, Tariq Mahmood, aged 20, was hit by a passenger coach near the godown chowrangi in Korangi Industrial Area. He was rushed to the JPMC where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
The police said that Tariq hailed from Rawalpindi. The coach-driver escaped.
A teenaged boy died when a milk van overturned near Star gate on Sharea Faisal. The police said that Ghulam Abbas, aged 15, was travelling in the back of a milk van when it overturned. He was rushed to the JPMC where doctors declared him dead on arrival. The van-driver was also injured in the accident.
DROWNED: A boy and his father drowned in the sea off Keamari on Monday.
The police said that Mohammed Yaqoob, aged 32, and his son Gul Mohammed, aged seven, and two small daughters were walking on the railway tracks off Mai Kolachi bypass road when his son’s foot got stuck into the railway tracks, and he fell into the sea under the tracks. The father who jumped into the sea to save his son was also drowned.
The father was accompanying his children to a school in Clifton area, when the tragedy occurred. Edhi volunteers fished out the bodies of both father and son.
The bodies were sent to Civil Hospital for post-mortem, but their relations did not allow autopsy to be done. The police said that Yaqoob taught in a religious school.
CARJACKING: Five vehicles — two cars and three motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Monday, the police said.
The cars were hijacked in Soldier Bazaar and another area. The motorcycles were stolen in Landhi, Rizvia, and Orangi Extension.
The police also claimed on Monday to have recovered four vehicles in the city.
ELECTROCUTED: An ironsmith was electrocuted while working at a bungalow in Defence Housing Authority on Monday.
The police said that Mohammed Aijaz, aged 23, and Mohammed Pervaiz, aged 20, were working on an animal cage at a bungalow in Defence when they received electric shock from a welding plant. Both of them were rushed to the JPMC where doctors pronounced Aijaz dead on arrival.
ARRESTS: The CIA police arrested a gang of five bandits at their hideout in Korangi on Monday and recovered Pakistani and foreign currency from their possession.
