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KARACHI, July 6: Four people died and two others were injured in separate accidents in different parts of the city, causing protesters to torch the killer vehicles in some of the cases, police said.
Paras, a 20-year-old woman, was knocked down by a fast-moving bus (JA-9598) near the Numaish intersection on Friday evening.
The woman was rushed to the Civil Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Following the accident, enraged people set fire to the Hyderabad-bound bus.
Bikers killed
Police said that two motorcyclists were hit by a speeding water tanker at Bilawal Chowrangi. The accident was so severe that both victims died on the spot. The driver responsible for the deaths managed to escape following the accident along with the vehicle.
Police shifted the bodies to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre through an Edhi ambulance. Their identities could not be immediately established.Following the accident a large number of people gathered at the site of the accident and pelted passing vehicles with stones.
In a somewhat similar case, a young motorcyclist died in a hit-and-run accident near Sohrab Goth on Friday morning.
Police said that Mohammad Salam was knocked down by a speeding dumper on Sharah-i-Pakistan near Sohrab Goth. The victim suffered serious injuries and was rushed to a nearby private hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police later shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for legal formalities.
Two injured
Earlier in the day, a speeding metro bus (LXC-2313) knocked down a motorcyclist near Tipu Sultan Road.
Both the motorcyclist and the pillion passenger — Mohammad Fazal and Tahir — suffered injuries in the accident and were taken to the JPMC.
