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KARACHI, July 14: Three people died in separate road accidents in the metropolis on Monday.
A cyclist, Mohammad Abid, 37, was hit and injured by recklessly driven Abdullah Coach (PE-5997) near Landhi-89 bus stop. He died on his way to a hospital. Police impounded the coach and arrested its driver, Nasir.
In Korangi, an elderly man Mohammad Anwar was injured while he was crossing the road in Noorani Basti by an unidentified vehicle. The junk dealer, Anwar was taken to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
A 50-year-old man, Tanveer Javed Bhatti, died as his motorcycle skidded near Naseerabad bus stop in Gulberg police limits. His body was handed over to his family after autopsy conducted at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. He was the resident of Buffer Zone.
FIRE ERUPTS: A man was killed, as fire broke out in a computer institute, set up in a multistory building, on Sharea Faisal on Monday.
The owner of the Comtech Computer Institute in Flaknaz Plaza said that the institute’s watchman, Mohammad Yusuf, allegedly set the computers and their accessories on fire in the institute with the help of his associate Mohammad Sabir. After setting the accessories on fire, Yusuf locked Sabir in an adjoining room and fled away with a licensed weapon provided to him by his employer. In the meantime, Sabir who was locked in the room, died of suffocation. The body of Sabir was sent to JPMC for autopsy.
The medico-legal officer at JPMC, Dr Kaleem, reserved the cause of death. However, the airport police registered an FIR No.113/2003 against the accused and have started looking for the watchman, Yousuf.
IDENTIFIED: The body of a youth found in a gunny bag from Karbala ground in Landhi on Saturday, was identified on Monday as an activist of Mohajir Qaumi Movement.
The MQM-H claimed that the body was of Shamshad, an activist of its unit in Landhi. He had been kidnapped a week before his death, the spokesman said.
SUICIDE: A jobless man committed suicide at his residence in Mehmoodabad on Monday night.
Police said that Abdul Karim, 30, had been jobless for the past several months and in a fit of depression, he hanged himself in his house in Chennesar Goth.
The police shifted the body to JPMC for autopsy.
