March 12, 2008	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 3, 1429

KARACHI, March 11: Two people were killed and five others injured on Tuesday when a fast-moving dumper overturned after hitting a motorcycle, a cycle-rickshaw and pedestrians at the Golimar traffic intersection, police and witnesses said.

They said the onlookers saw red and set fire to the dumper (TKE-511) following the accident that left a motorcyclist and a cycle-rickshaw owner dead and another motorcyclist and four pedestrians injured.

The witnesses said the enraged mob beat up the dumper driver, Noroze Khan, while police chose not to interfere despite the fact that the Nazimabad police station is hardly two kilometres away from the scene of accident.

The victims were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the deceased were identified as Tahir Mansoor, 35, and Javed Ali, 30, and the injured as Khurram, Arshad Ali and Rashid.

Mohammed Ehsan, who had a narrow escape, told Dawn that he was standing at the pavement near the Golimar traffic intersection when he saw the dumper come from Nazimabad No 2 to Golimar and hit a motorbike before it finally overturned. “The driver seemed to have lost control as it all happened in the twinkling of an eye,” he said.

The eyewitnesses said the dumper also ran over a cycle-rickshaw instantly crushing the man on it to death. “I leapt away as I saw the truck come in my direction, but the others got no time to escape,” he said.

The witnesses said the incident took place around 11.45am. They said that the number of casualties could have been much more had the incident taken place a little later as the spot was always crowded with a large number of students of Sir Syed College for Women after 12 noon.

Hospital sources said the bodies of both the victims were badly mutilated as they had been crushed under the wheels of the heavy vehicle.

Police said victim Tahir Mansoor, who was going on his motorbike (KAK-4592), was the project manager of the Sindh Development Social Service. They said the victim, resident of house No. B-8, Block-3, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, had got married a few moths ago.

The police said the other victim, Javed Ali, resident of Brohi Goth, Buffer Zone, was the only breadwinner of his family. He was married with a two-year-old son.

Hospital sources said the injured were discharged from the hospital after medical treatment as their injuries were not life-threatening.

Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl was crushed to death by a truck in front of her Jinnah Colony house in Orangi Town.

Mominabad police said the driver fled the scene and the police impounded his vehicle.

They said victim Bushra’s paternal grandfather, Rab Nawaz, lodged the FIR against the unknown driver of the vehicle.

The police said they had mounted a search for the suspect, but no clue to his whereabouts was found so far.