KARACHI, Nov 8: A young man died in a road accident involving not a car, bus, truck or lorry, but being crushed under a road roller on Mangopir Road here on Wednesday. A duty officer of the Pak Colony police station said that Muhammad Asghar, 23, died after being crushed by a “speeding road roller”.
The town police officer of Site, Javed Akbar, said the driver of the road roller identified as Mairaj was reportedly reversing the heavy machine at the under-construction road of Mangopir when the accident occurred in front of Bismillah Hotel.
Initial reports suggested that Mairaj didn’t see Muhammad Asghar who was sitting on his motorcycle. The speed of the roller was a bit faster than its usual pace, the TPO said.
During the accident the young man was crushed and his motorcycle was also destroyed, police said. “It seems that due to traffic noise Muhammad Asghar didn’t hear the roller approaching at his back,” the TPO remarked.
The driver escaped from the spot following the accident.
Enraged people of the area blocked the single track of Mangopir Road which is operational for traffic.
The protest which lasted for over half an hour caused a sever traffic jam on the busy artery.
Police negotiated with the protesting residents, breaking off the protest and restoring the traffic on the road.
They impounded the road roller and were reportedly trying to arrest the driver.
The road roller belonged to a private contractor engaged in the road carpeting work.
The accident caused a temporary halt to the work.
DACOITY: A bank was deprived of Rs1 million in an armed holdup in the Federal B Area on Wednesday morning.
Police said eight armed men came to the Allied Bank’s Ancholi Mor branch. It was about 9:15am. They disarmed the security guard and held the staff members and customers at gunpoint. After collecting the cash they escaped without facing any resistance.
Following the incident, bank manager Syed Muhammad Mujtaba lodged an FIR (322/06) at the Gulberg police station.
