KARACHI: An employee of the Cantonment Board Clifton and a teenage girl were among five people killed in separate accidents in Karachi on Sunday, said police and rescue services officials.
A traffic police official said that CBC employee Muhammad Yaseen, 57, was killed when a car hit a motorcycle in DHA, Phase-VIII.
The officer said he sustained critical injuries and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where he died during treatment soon after his arrival.
The driver, Yahya Faheem, was taken into custody and the car impounded.
In another accident on Superhighway, a 15-year-old girl, Moma Shaikh, was killed after an unidentified vehicle hit her while she was crossing the highway near Chakar Hotel.
The teenage girl was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) in an ambulance, where she was pronounced dead.
A motorcyclist was also killed on Superhighway.
Officials said that the bike-rider hit a passer-by at Maymar Mor, in which both the motorcyclist and the passer-by sustained injuries.
They were taken to the ASH, where bike-rider Sohrab Jani, 45, was pronounced dead while the unidentified passer-by was admitted for treatment.
Two young men were killed in a hit-and-run accident on Superhighway on Sunday evening.
SITE-Superhighway Industrial Area SHO Mohammed Nawaz said the victims were riding a motorcycle when a hit-and-run driver ran them over near Iqra University. They died on the spot.
Published in Dawn, October 12th, 2026
