KARACHI: A fast-moving truck mounted with a concrete mixer ran over a young man and his two little daughters going on a motorcycle on Sharea Faisal on Tuesday leaving emotional scenes on the main artery of the city.

Eyewitness to the incident and other people present there expressed extreme anger on unchecked movement of the heavy vehicles, which go around despite a ban imposed on their movement during the daytime.

It was in the morning when the driver of the heavy vehicle while overtaking another vehicle near Awami Markaz hit a motorcycle from the back and ran over the two-wheeler.

The deadly incident left all three riders — the man and his two daughters — crushed to death on the spot.

The deceased were identified as 39-year-old Zaheeruddin, 12-year-old Shija Zaheer and nine-year-old Batool Zaheer.

A resident of Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Zaheer left home to drop his daughters to school on main Korangi Expressway as per his daily routine.

The incident sparked extreme anger among the local residents, road users and people who witnessed the incident.

They forced the driver to stop the vehicle and nabbed him before handing him to police.

The driver of the concrete mixer was identified as Zafar, who was later formally booked and arrested.

The strong reaction from the people on spot and later videos shared over the social media of the deadly incident attracted immediate reaction from the police authorities. DIG traffic Ahmed Nawaz Cheema suspended the section officer of Tipu Sultan traffic police.

“The traffic officials have also been issued directives to ensure implementation of the ban on the movement of heavy vehicles during school hours between 7am and 9am and then from 5pm and 7pm in the evening,” said an official.

Published in Dawn, March 23rd, 2022