SHIKARPUR, July 28: Three passengers were killed and one was injured when a truck (QAO-2016) collided with a wagon (R-0934) coming from the opposite direction, near Soomar Goth, on the Shikarpur-Sukkur road on Sunday.

The dead were identified as Ghous Bux Junejo, Imdadullah Phulpoto, and Allah Dino Shaikh.

The injured man, Haq Nawaz Kolachi, was sent to the Sukkur Civil Hospital.

The drivers of both the wagon and the truck fled immediately after the accident.

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