KARACHI: Four people were killed when several vehicles veered off and collided on M-9 (formerly Superhighway) due to slippery road conditions after rains on Tuesday, said police and rescue services officials.

Additional Inspector General of Motorway police Munir Ahmed Shaikh told Dawn the cause of the accident, in which six vehicles were involved, was slippery Motorway-9 near DHA City in Gadap after the rains.

He said the vehicles skidded off the road in an accident involving a passenger bus, two trailers, a van, a fully loaded dumper truck and a Mazda.

He said the Motorway police and other rescue teams rushed to the spot and took the six injured people to a nearby private hospital on the motorway. The fatal accident occurred at 2:55pm.

An Edhi Foundation spokesperson in a statement said that the four injured succumbed to their wounds during treatment. Three of them were identified as Hameeda Ghulam Rasool, 50, Abdul Bari, 47, and Wali Mohammed, 47, an unidentified person.

The bodies were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2026