JACOBABAD, Aug 23: A minor girl was killed and her mother was seriously injured when a tractor hit the motorcycle rickshaw they were travelling in near the main bus stop in the limits of Ghouspur police station in Kandhkot on Saturday.

Ms Moomal Ogahi and her two-year-old daughter Sakina were going in the rickshaw when the speeding tractor hit them.

The rickshaw overturned. Sakina died on the spot and Ms Moomal received serious injuries. She was taken to Rahim Yar Khan Hospital.

Police have arrested the tractor driver, Bakhsho Ogahi, and impounded the vehicle.

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