KARACHI, June 28: A boy died in a road accident on Baloch Colony Expressway on Friday.

Witnesses said that a boy was run over by a speeding car on Baloch Colony Expressway. Those residing in the locality said that the boy had died on the spot, but the occupants of the car took him along with them in the car, saying that they would take him to a hospital.

However, the boy, who, according to witnesses, had died on the spot, never reached any hospital.

Recently, in a similar accident in which a boy was hit by a Suzuki hi-roof near the old Sabzimandi, the driver of the vehicle had taken the injured boy along with him in his vehicle, saying that he himself would take the boy to a hospital.

However, after several days the accident victim’s body was found in an open drain near the main Korangi Road.

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