KARACHI, June 11: Five people, including two children, were killed in separate road accidents in different parts of the city on Sunday.
Police said nine-year-old Chand Muna was crushed to death by a minibus of route P-3 near Kala School in Godhra Camp, New Karachi, on Sunday evening.
Following the accident, people of the area set the vehicle on fire. The driver of the vehicle fled. Police said the boy died before he could be shifted to hospital.
Another nine-year-boy, Tahir, was knocked down by a passenger coach in Saeedabad. Police said that Tahir was going with his grandmother when he started running and got hit by a speeding Sadabahar coach. Police claimed to have arrested the errant driver.
Police shifted the body to the Jinnah Hospital for legal formalities.
A middle-aged woman died and five others were injured when a minibus overturned in Orangi Town on Sunday.
Police said the minibus of route W-25 overturned in Sector 11-1/2, killing the woman identified as Zainab and injuring five other passengers, who were shifted to the hospital for treatment. Police said that some technical fault in the vehicle caused it to overturn.
A young man Saulah Khan who had arrived from his native town of Sawat the same day died when a speeding minibus of route W-11 knocked him down in New Karachi. Police arrested the driver on the spot.
In another incident, a young man died in a hit-and-run accident on the New M.A. Jinnah Road. The victim was identified as Saleem, 25. His body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for legal formalities by the police.
CHARAS SEIZED: Site police seized 270kg of charas after chasing the vehicle on Sunday morning.
Site TPO Javed Akbar said that a police party was carrying out snap checking near the Government College of Technology. When the police signalled a car (AA-1080) to stop, it tried to speed away.
The police party chased the car and managed to intercept it after an eight-kilometre pursuit. However, the driver again attempted to run on foot who was finally nabbed by the policemen.
On search, police recovered 270kg charas concealed in the boot of the car.
The driver, identified as Zarbadan, is being interrogated by the police.
Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has announced promotion of the policemen to the next rank and a reward money of Rs500,000 for the police party.
BURGLARIES: An increasing number of burglaries are taking place in Block F North Nazimabad, particularly at the D street.
Some residents called up Dawn offices to complain about the breaks-in.
A resident said that last month three attempts had been made in which suspects jumped from the neighbouring house used as a madressah.
The principal of the madressah was informed about these breaks-in, but instead he harassed the complainants, the resident said.
It was due to the negligence of the area police that after every three or four days people of the same street became target of bandits, the caller said.
