February 08, 2007	Thursday	Muharram 19, 1428

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LAHORE, Feb 7: Ten people were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a peter engine rickshaw and a truck in the Manga Mandi area on Wednesday morning.

Police and rescue sources said the rickshaw carrying labourers was on way to a factory in Sundar Industrial Estate when a speeding truck, violating one-way, lost control and hit it at about 7:45am. As a result of which eight labourers were killed on the spot and four others injured.

However, the Manga Mandi SHO said the collision could have occurred owing to fog in the morning, but confirmed that both the vehicles were on the same road at the time of accident.

The truck driver managed his escape after leaving his vehicle.

“I was going to the Pioneer Papers Ltd along with my colleagues for duty when we felt a sudden push and fell unconscious,” said a relative of Ali Raza while quoting him as saying.

Rickshaw driver Waqas of Muridke and labourers Tasawar Husain of Bhattian Sheikhupura, Amin of Farooqabad, Ghulam Mustafa of Mailsi, Mashooq Ali of Mansehra, Asif of Pattoki, Shahbaz of Gujranwala and Riaz of Manga Mandi died on the spot.

Jamshaid of Khanewal, Shahzad of Ghosia Colony, Lahore, Ali Raza and Shahbaz were rushed to Jinnah Hospital in a critical condition where Jamshaid and Shahzad succumbed to their injuries.

Sundar Chowki police have registered a case against the absconding driver.

Rescue 1122, Edhi and the police rushed to the spot soon after the incident.

The Edhi sources said the bodies had been rushed to their respective town for burial.

Most of the labourers were outsiders and residing at a rented place in Manga Mandi.

Strangled: An unidentified man was found dead in the Rohi Drain in the Burki area on Wednesday.

Police said some people might have strangled the man, about 35, with a rope and then threw his body in the drain.

The body has been removed to the city morgue for autopsy.

The body of an unidentified man was found in the Lytton Road area.

Police said the man, in his thirties, seemed to be an addict.