HYDERABAD, Jan 16: Four people, including a minor boy, were killed and six others were injured in two separate accidents on Monday. Jawahari Lal, Mushtaq, and an unidentified man were killed when a Mirpurkhas-bound bus overturned near the Detho village.

The injured — Mohammad Ameen, Fayyaz Ahmed, Qurban, Hukum Khan and Tariq –- were admitted to the civil hospital.

A five-year-old boy, Zaifa, son of Waqar Sheikh, was crushed under the wheels of a Karachi-bound bus in the jurisdiction of Bhittai Nagar police on Monday.

The bus has been impounded while drive fled.

KILLED: A man, Latif, was killed while five others were injured when gas cylinders exploded in a shop on the Hali road on Monday.

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