KARACHI, June 9: Three persons died in separate road accident in different parts of the city on Tuesday.
A young man, Rizwan, 22, died and three others were injured when a speeding bus of route 4J (JO-0271) rammed into a roadside cabin in New Karachi. An enraged mob later set the bus on fire.
The errant driver, who had escaped from the scene soon after the accident, was arrested at the Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre, where he had gone for treatment, police said.
Two of the three persons, injured in the accident, were identified as Rashid, 25, and Abdul Latif, 40, while the other person could not be identified immediately. They were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
In Lyari, a 60-year-old unidentified man was knocked down by a heavy vehicle knocked.
Police said that the man was hit by a dumper belonging to the city government. The victim’s body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for postmortem, they added.
A man, Zaheer Ahmed, 18, was run over by a speeding vehicle in Gadap.
Police said Zaheer Ahmed was a motor mechanic at a workshop in Khatoor Morr. They said that the errant driver was apprehended on the spot, but was later released due to his influential personality.
The victim’s body was shifted to the JPMC for postmortem examination, police added.
