August 15, 2008	Friday	Sha'aban 12, 1429

LAHORE, Aug 14: Road accidents across Punjab, mostly caused by the dangerous ‘wheelie’ stunt, claimed the lives of 11 youths on Thursday.

Another 133 young men suffered injuries.

According to Rescue 1122 officials, 100 people were injured only in Lahore.

Our correspondent in Gujranwala reported that teenagers Waqas , Farid and Tariq of Mafiwala locality were doing a wheelie when their motorcycle collided with a truck on the G.T. road.

Waqas and Farid died on the spot and Tariq in the DHQ hospital.

In an accident near Nandipur, two youths doing similar stunts rammed into a truck and died on the spot.

The deceased were identified as Fezan and Fahad.

Twenty other people, two of them women, were injured in road accidents.

The women were crossing a road and suffered severe injuries in the head when a motorcycle hit them.

BAHAWALPUR: At least three motorcyclists were killed and another was injured in an accident at Adda Baildaran on the Hasilpur road.

Four youths were doing stunts on motorcycles near the road when their bike collided. Three of them were killed and the fourth was seriously injured and admitted to the Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital.

SIALKOT: Three youths, Waqas, Zeeshan and Khalid, were killed while doing a wheelie in Daska.

APP adds from Faisalabad: Three youths indulging in the wheelie stunt were killed and 13 others were injured in various parts of the city.

Police arrested 18 motorcyclists for performing stunts.