KARACHI, March 16: Eighteen vehicles — five cars and 13 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Saturday.

Police sources said three cars were hijacked and two others stolen.

Four motorcycles were hijacked. Nine others were stolen.

Police also claimed on Saturday to have recovered two stolen cars and four motorcycles.

ACCIDENT: A passenger coach conductor was crushed to death beneath the wheels of the coach he was travelling in on Mauripur Road.

Police said Lalzada was standing on a footboard of the moving coach, when he lost his balance near the truck stand on Mauripur Road, fell down on the ground and came beneath the wheels of the coach. He died on the spot. The body was sent to a hospital for autopsy.

Police claimed to have impounded the coach and arrested its driver, Hazrat Gul.

FOUND DEAD: A boy was found dead in the bushes on Mauripur Road.

Police said the boy, identified as Ameer Badshah, aged 19, had left his Sultabanabad home four days back. He was jobless and police believed he might have been kidnapped, tortured and killed.

DIES: A security guard, Saqib, aged 40, deputed at a private company, was injured when his gun went off accidentally, police said.

He was rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. A bullet also hit an elderly man, Ghaffar Khan, causing him minor injuries. Police described the guard’s death as accidental.

WOUNDED: A man and a woman were shot and wounded in Kalakot, Lyari. Police said Shaheen Bibi was travelling in a rickshaw and Afzal was driving it.

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