KARACHI, Jan 19: Twenty-one vehicles — eight cars and 13 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Saturday, the police said.

Most of the cars were taken away in districts East and South. The majority of motorcycles were taken away in districts Central and South.

The police also claimed on Saturday to have recovered five stolen vehicles in the city.

ROAD ACCIDENT: An unidentified man died and 13 other passengers were injured when two passenger coaches collided head on with each other on Hub River road in Mochko on Saturday.

The police said that Hub Coach (PG-0012) and Quetta Coach (P-0608) collided with each other as a result of which one passenger died and 13 others were injured.

The dead and injured were taken to a nearby hospital and later shifted to Civil Hospital. The dead passenger had not been identified till our going to the press.

Some of the injured were identified as Ghulam Rasool, aged 55, Bano, aged 50, Humaira, aged 30, Fernandes, aged 55, Gul Hameed, aged 40, Noor Mohammed, Raheela, and Waheed.

FOUND DEAD: A woman was found dead in her home in Liaquatabad on Saturday.

The police sent the body to a hospital for post-mortem. The police believed that the woman, identified later as Shazia, aged 32, mother of four, was strangled. Her husband, Kashif, was missing with their four children.

Kashif had rented the first floor of the house about two months back where his six-member family had been living.

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