20 January 2004	Tuesday	27 Ziqa'ad 1424

LAHORE, Jan 19: Four people, two of them brothers, were killed in accidents in different parts of the city on Monday. Khwaja Tanzeel, 19, and Khwaja Naveed, 14, the sons of a bank officer , were on their way home when their motorcycle stuck between two rashly-driven wagons trying to overtake each other at Larex Colony in Shahdara, police quoted witnesses as saying.

One of the wagons hit the motorcycle after which the brothers fell on the road and the other wagon ran them over. The vehicles sped away. The two brothers were taken to a private clinic where they were pronounced dead.

Later, their relatives and neighbours took the bodies to the site of accident and put those in the middle of the road. Dozens of Tanzeel's class-fellows joined the family protesting against the traffic police.

They chanted slogans against the police and blamed it for such accidents for alleged support to the "wagon mafia". Traffic remained suspended for well over three hours as the protesters refused to disperse until the arrest of the absconding wagon drivers.

Senior police officers reached there and assured the family that the accused would be held at the earliest. They took the bodies home for burial. Gulbaz Khan, 35, was killed when a speeding bus hit him on the Circular Road in Tibbi City police precincts. His body was handed over to the family.

Police claimed to have impounded the bus and registered a case against its absconding driver. A man, unidentified till last reports came in, was killed when a wagon hit him at Sabzazar. He was around 45. The body was sent to the city mortuary for autopsy.