KARACHI, Oct 29: Six persons died in three separate accidents in different parts of the city since Saturday night. Three youths died and three others were injured in a road accident on the National Highway near Gulshan-i-Hadeed on late Saturday night.

Police said a car (AGK-582) occupied by six young men and heading to the shrine of Samundari Baba collided head-on with an oil tanker (QAE-4233).

Police said that three victims identified as Shahbaz, Sharif and Sarwar died before they could be shifted to hospital.

However, the three injured - Irfan, Naeem and Jibran -- were admitted to the Jinnah Hospital for treatment.

Hospital sources said the ages of all the dead and injured ranged from 22 to 25 years.

In another accident, a man and his young daughter died and his wife and a girl child were injured in a road accident in the Site area on Sunday evening.

Site TPO Javed Akbar Riaz said the couple were riding on the motorcycle with their two children when a speeding bus of route 20 knocked them down near the Habib Bank Chowrangi.

The injured family was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where Kaleem and his daughter Iqra were pronounced dead while the victim’s wife and their other daughter were referred to the Jinnah Hospital for further treatment.

The Site TPO said that the bus was driven by an underage conductor of the same vehicle identified as Abid Khan.

According to initial information, the driver of the bus was not feeling well and he had handed over the steering to Abid Khan.

Police have arrested the driver and impounded the vehicle following the accident.

In yet another accident a six-year-old girl died in a road accident in Saeedabad on Sunday.

Police said Asma, 6, was reportedly crossing the road in sector B-11 when a minibus bus knocked her down.

The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Police claimed to have arrested the driver of the minibus.