MIRPURKHAS, March 16: Grieving relatives of four members of a family, who died on Friday in a bus-rickshaw accident near here, blocked the main Mirwah road in Bhansinghabad on Saturday by placing the bodies on the road and staging a sit-in in protest against police’s failure to arrest the bus driver.

Raising slogans against police, the protesters demanded the driver’s arrest and kept the traffic suspended for an hour. The SHO of Old Mirpur police station Bhooromal Khatri requested protesters to lift blockade assuring them that the driver would be arrested soon but they did not budge.

He was later joined by the MPA-elect Faheem Ahmed Altafi who also assured them that the police would soon nab the driver and succeeded in persuading them to end the protest.

Mohammad Siraj, his son Zain and daughters Khalida and Gulnaz who were laid to rest in Satellite town, were killed when a speeding bus overturned on their motorcycle-rickshaw after the driver lost control of the vehicle.

The SHO said that police had impounded the bus and detrained its owner Sajid Hussain while raids were being conducted to nab the bus driver Abdul Ghafoor Chandio.

The injured Ms Asghari Begum, Sawan, Ghulam Hussain and Khalid Hussain were admitted to Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas. Ms Asghari Begum, wife of late Mohammad Siraj, who has suffered fractures, is in a state of shock after the incident.

The relatives of the deceased said that marriages of Khalida and Gulnaz were to be held shortly. The family were returning to the city from Mohammad Medical College Hospital when they met the accident, they said.

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