26 January 2004	Monday	03 Zilhaj 1424

KARACHI, Jan 25: Four people died in separate road accidents in different parts of the city on Sunday. A 12-year-old boy died in a road accident in Steel Town. Police said Imran Ali, 12, was knocked down by a speeding minibus (PE-2891) in the police limits of Steel Town.

Hospital sources said the victim was brought dead at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. In a late night road accident on the Sunset Boulevard - in the limits of the Gizri police station - a young man, Minhaj, died when a water tanker (LSA-4002) hit an auto-rickshaw.

Police said Minhaj, 22, was a travelling in the rickshaw, when the speeding water tanker hit the vehicle from behind at the Punjab Colony intersection. The driver of the auto-rickshaw survived the accident. The water-tanker driver escaped, leaving the truck behind.

Police said that the young passenger was taken to the JPMC, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. An official of the Frontier Constabulary died in a road accident near Clifton Bridge late Saturday night.

Police said Shahid, a guard commander of the Frontier Constabulary, had come to check the FC deployment at the Cultural Centre of Iran, when he was hit by a speeding car (AED-912).

The guard commander was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police arrested the errant driver, Sanjay Lal, at the spot. A young girl died in an accident in North Nazimabad on Sunday evening.

Police said Rukhsana, 19, was disembarking from a 2-K bus near Niaz Manzil when she got crushed beneath the rear wheels of the same vehicle. The victim died on the spot. Her body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital by the police.

SHOT DEAD: A middle-aged man was shot dead by unknown persons near Pehlwan Goth on Sunday night. Police said Chaudhry Asif, 40, was on his motorcycle on the Pehlwan Goth bridge when unknown persons sprayed him with bullets. The victim died on the spot.

Two identity cards found in his pocket showed him as a reporter of the daily Mashriq and that of a weekly crime magazine. Police said two cell phones and two magazines of TT pistol were also found on him.

The victim was resident of Rafa-i-Aam Society, Malir Halt, police added.His body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for postmortem examination by the police.