03 November 2004	Wednesday	19 Ramazan 1425

KARACHI, Nov 2: A Rangers official was shot dead at Nipa intersection on Tuesday night. Police said Inspector Mubeen of Abdullah Shah Ghazi Rangers suffered five bullet wounds when unknown people opened fire on him.

Someone had called the deceased to the place, police said. As he was waiting, in civil clothes, near the traffic police office, unknown people riding a motorcycle opened fire on him and escaped.

Police said the victim was taken to the nearby Nadeem Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead. The body was shifted to the PN Shifa hospital.

ACCIDENTS: A five-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy died in separate accidents in the city on Tuesday.

Mohammad Ayaz, 15, riding a bicycle died when a speeding minibus hit him in Shah Faisal Colony No1. Police said the driver escaped.

The body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

Madiha, five, was going home with her school fellows Husna, five, and Mehvish, four, when a speeding truck knocked them down near the Hawksbay Road in mauripur area. Police said Madiha died on the spot and her two friends were injured. They were taken to the Civil Hospital.

A man and his son were injured when their vehicle rammed into a parked truck in Joharabad.

Police said Farhatullah was heading for shopping with his family when his yellow cab rammed into a parked truck near the Azizabad telephone exchange. Farhatullah and his son Raheel, 11, were injured.

Police took the injured to the Liaquat National Hospital.

People of the area tired to set the truck on fire but police saved it.

The truck driver had abandoned his vehicle after one of its tyres got punctured in the evening, police said.

SEIZED: Railway police on Monday night seized explosives used in the manufacture of fire crackers.

Police said 53 cartons of explosives, each weighing 40kg, were seized from godowns near the city railway station. A man, Ayub Memon, was arrested.

CAR STOLEN: A brand new Mehran VXR (AGV 550) belonging to Mohammad Faisal Siddiqui was stolen from near Teen Talwar on Tuesday night. The CPLC and the police at '15' were informed.