Oil tanker hits parked wagons

Published February 14, 2006

SUKKUR, Feb 13: Ten persons, including a woman, were injured in a road accident near the Sukkur central jail-I on Monday evening. It is learnt that the driver of an oil tanker which was going to Khairpur from Sukkur lost control of the vehicle which rammed into four passenger wagons parked at the roadside.

As a result, 10 passengers were injured. Two of them – Mai Zahida, 65, and Ghulam Kabeer, 18, were in critical condition shifted to the Sukkur civil hospital. The other eight injured were discharged after first aid. Drivers of the vehicle fled but police have impounded the vehicles.

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