LAHORE, Aug 14: Youngsters took over the city roads on the eve of the Independence Day, playing havoc with the traffic flow and rendering about 10,000 police officials and 3,200 wardens helpless.

Police arrested more than 200 motorcyclists for doing a wheelie and impounded their two-wheelers at different police stations. Over 110 cases were registered against the violators.

Rescue 1122 spokesman Farooq Ahmad said their ambulances responded to 93 accidents involving motorcycles and shifted more than 150 victims with multiple injuries to different city hospitals.

He said their control room was flooded with emergency calls the whole day.

Youngsters in groups ruled Canal Road, The Mall, Main Boulevard Gulberg, Jail Road, Bund Road, Multan Road and other thoroughfares and did wheelie. Accidents were reported in all parts of the provincial capital.

Though the policemen arrested the motorcyclists and impounded their two-wheelers at several places, a good number of violators successfully moved on the city roads.

Scuffles between the youths and the police were also reported at different places.

A group of angry youth, majority of them were Punjab University students, encircled the Muslim Town police station against impounding of their motorcycles which were later released by the police.

DIE: Three people, including a woman, were killed in road accidents here on Sunday, police said.

City Raiwind police said 12-year-old Sibtain was hit and killed by a tractor-trolley in the city area. Sibtain, who was riding a bicycle, was pronounced dead at a local hospital by paramedics. The family pardoned the tractor driver.

Mughalpura police said an unidentified 20-year-old pedestrian was run over by a tractor with trolley near Mughalpura Canal Bridge. The driver fled the scene.

A 45-year-old unidentified woman died shortly at Services Hospital after she was struck in a hit-and-run accident on Shalimar-Link Road in Mughalpura.

Lower Mall police said a 55-year-old unidentified woman succumbed to her wounds at Mayo Hospital on Sunday, a day after she was struck in a hit-and-run accident near Pir Makki Darbar. Police shifted the body to the morgue.

SUICIDE: A 14-year-old boy allegedly killed himself in N-II Block of Wapda Town on Sunday.

Quoting the family, Nawab Town police said Zamin Ali took his life by using his father’s gun in the kitchen when all family members were asleep after pre-dawn meal for fasting. Zamin, who was getting Qur’an education at a seminary, was reprimanded by his father Shamsuddin, an electrician at Jaffarabad village, for being absent from the seminary.

When the family was asleep, Zamin reportedly ended his life with gunshot. Police handed over the body to the family after autopsy.

SKELETON: Kahna police seized a decomposed human skeleton from the fields of Asal Suleman village and shifted to morgue for autopsy on Sunday.

Some villagers alerted the police after spotting the skeleton in sugarcane fields. Police seized the skeleton and female clothes from the scene. Police said an autopsy would be performed to determine the sex and future of course of investigation.