KARACHI, Aug 26: Half a dozen passengers were injured when the minibus they were travelling on fell into a stormwater drain after a culvert collapsed in Orangi Town in the rains on Monday.
The minibus was passing through a culvert in Islam Nagar, Orangi Town, carrying about half a dozen passengers, when the culvert collapsed. The minibus fell into the stormwater drain, which was not deeper than five feet. The injured were taken to a private clinic.
A four-year-old boy suffered severe electric shock when he touched an electric pole in Mehmoodabad.
Amjad Masih told doctors at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre that his son Samuel went out of his house in Street No 5, Sector-B, Kashmir Colony, Mehmoodabad, to play in the rain.
He unintentionally touched an electric pole in which electric current was running. As he touched the pole, he was glued to it. Those present on the scene rescued him.
ROAD ACCIDENTS: A man was run over by a truck in Clifton on Monday. Police said that Abdur Rauf, aged 54, an employee of the Karachi Port Trust, was travelling on his bicycle when he was run over by a truck on main Khayaban-i-Jami. He died on the spot.
The truck driver sped away after the accident. A man chased the truck on his car and intercepted it in Delhi Colony. The truck driver ran away leaving behind the truck. The man, with the help of another man, caught hold of the truck driver, later identified as Mohammed Idrees, and took him to Frere police station.
