KARACHI, Sept 17: Four persons died in separate road accidents in different parts of the city on Sunday. Police said a man died and a friend of his was injured when their motorcycle skidded on Mauripur Road.
Resident of Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Abdul Shakoor and Shahid Usman were taken to the Civil Hospital, where Shakoor died and Shahid was admitted in a critical condition.
In another accident, a teenaged boy died and his friend was injured when they were hit by a speeding truck in Shah Faisal Colony on Sunday.
Police said Zuabir and Bilal were joyriding on a motorcycle when they were knocked down by the truck, which fled following the accident.
Both the injured were taken to the Jinnah Hospital, where Zubair, 15, died during treatment while Bilal, 11, was admitted for treatment.
A pedestrian died in a hit-and-run accident in Orangi Town on Sunday.
Police said Mohammad Waseem, 22, was walking down a road in Mominabad when a speeding vehicle knocked him down and sped away. The victim died on the spot. Police shifted his body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for legal formalities.
A 40-year-old man died in a hit-and-run accident on Shahrea Faisal.
Police said the victim, identified as Ibrahim Husain, was crossing the main Shahrea Faisal when a speeding vehicle knocked him down on late Saturday night.
KILLED: A young rickshaw-driver was killed in Nazimabad, police said.
Aashiq Ali, 27, a rickshaw driver, resident of Qasba Colony in Orangi Town, was shot dead by unidentified men in Nazimabad No 3.
The injured was taken to the nearby Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he died during treatment.
The body was handed over to deceased’s relatives after legal formalities.
Police suspected some personal enmity as a possible motive for the killing.
An FIR (246/2006) against unidentified assassins was lodged on the complaint of Bukht Wali, the victim’s father, police said. body found: The unidentified body of a young man was found in Liaqutabad on Sunday morning.
Police said the victim was in his early 20s. His bullet-riddled body was found on the pavement near Sindhi Hotel.
Police shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for postmortem examination. Later the body was sent to the Edhi morgue for identification.
