22 January 2004	Thursday	29 Ziqa'ad 1424

KARACHI, Jan 21: Three persons died in separate road accidents in different parts of the city on Wednesday. Share Khan, cleaner of a trailer, died when he fell from the vehicle and got crushed beneath the rear wheels. The accident occurred at the Bin Qasim link road.

The cleaner's body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for the postmortem examination. Police took the driver of the trailer into custody. A middle-aged man died in a hit-and-run accident while crossing Shahrae Faisal on Wednesday.

Police said that Abdul Waheed Khan, 55, suffered a fatal hit by a speeding vehicle. He was taken to the JPMC where he was pronounced dead on arrival.Another hit-and-run accident, in Site, claimed the life of an elderly man. The victim died on the spot and his body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Later it was taken to the Edhi morgue for identification.

UNCONSCIOUS: Three persons were rushed from different places to hospitals when they fell unconscious for unknown reasons, adds PPI. An unidentified man was rushed to the JPMC by Edhi workers after he fell unconscious on a road in Korangi.

In another incident a 65-year old man got unconscious on MA Jinnah Road. An Edhi ambulance took him to the Civil Hospital. Another man was rushed to the Civil Hospital by an Edhi ambulance after he fell unconscious near Tower. Edhi ambulance also brought a heroine addict to the JPMC on Wednesday evening.