Four die in accidents

Published January 22, 2003

KARACHI, Jan 21: Four people, including a mother and her infant daughter, were killed in two road accidents late on Tuesday night.

In the first accident, according to the SITE police, Asma Iqbal, accompanied by her three-month-old daughter Hina Amna Iqbal, was going with her husband on their motorcycle (KCU 8034).

When they reached near the Valika hospital in the SITE, the motorcycle collided with a cyclist, Allahdita. As they all fell down, they were run over by a speeding water tanker (QAF 1563).

Asma, her daughter Hina and the cyclist died. Tanker drive fled from the scene.

A girl Sadaf was killed in another accident on the Super Highway.

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