KARACHI: 2 television employees among 3 die in accidents
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, April 22: Three men, including two employees of a private television channel, died in road accidents here on Saturday. A TV channel van was hit by a water tanker (LS-2972) near Khayban-i-Shamsheer early in the morning. Sajjad Akbar, the van driver, and Sohail Taqi, television employee, died on the spot and their van turned into wreckage. Mr Taqi was going to the airport to catch an international flight.
Police impounded the water tanker and arrested its cleaner Idrees. However, the tanker driver fled.
The involvement of water tankers, dumpers, buses, minibuses, and coaches in fatal road accidents is 72 per cent while the aggregate of their share in total population of registered vehicles in the city is mere 3.34 per cent, according to official statistics.
In Malir, Siraj Ahmed was hit by a speeding vehicle. His body was shifted to a hospital for autopsy.
STRANGULATED: A man was strangled to death at his residence in Qaimkhani Colony here on Saturday.
Police said that a bread-maker, Khan Mohammad, hailing from Dera Ismail Khan, was found dead at his home.
He was believed to have been strangled to death as a noose round his neck was found fastened.
Police said it did not appear a case of suicide. There were circumstantial evidences that the man was killed and the killers had escaped.
Police were investigating the case to find out motive of the killing and clue to the killers.
