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KARACHI, March 7: A 40-year-old man and his eight-year-old son died in a road accident in Saddar on Thursday evening.
The police said that Zulfiqar Ali and his son Afzal Ali were passing through Mubarak Shaheed Road on a motorcycle when a recklessly-driven bus (PRQ-6738) knocked them down near Army Public School.
Both father and son died on the spot. Their bodies were sent to Jinnah Post- graduate Medical Centre for post-mortem.
The police said that the father was taking his child home after tuition. The bus driver sped away after the accident, the police said.
CARJACKING: Seventeen vehicles — ten cars and seven motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Thursday, the police said.
Six cars were hijacked. Four others were stolen.
Three motorcycles were hijacked. Four others were stolen.
KILLED: Two teenage sisters were killed allegedly by their fiances in Frontier Colony, Peerabad, on Thursday.
The police said that two sisters, identified as Bilqis, aged 14, and Haseema, aged 16, were throttled and stabbed to death in their home in Frontier Colony.
The police said that the girls were Afghans. They were killed when they were alone in their home on Thursday evening. The police said that two suspects, identified as Khuda Dad and Javed, were absconding.
However, the police failed to ascertain the motive behind the killings, but they said that the possibility of honour killing could not be ruled out.
The bodies were sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem.
An elderly man died while trying to pacify a quarrel between a man and his sons in Gadap. The police said that Ali Bakhsh, aged 65, tried to intervene in a scuffle between his four sons and a man, identified as Iqbal, at Jam Goth in Gadap.
The police said that as Ali Bakhsh tried to pacify his sons and their opponent, he received a blow and fell to the ground. He died on the spot.
The body was sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post-mortem.
Meanwhile, three armed men barged into the house of Shameem Bibi in Azizabad and got away with valuables.
