KARACHI : Two hurt as bogies hit trailer

Published September 18, 2007

KARACHI, Sept 17: A trailer’s driver and cleaner were injured on Monday when their vehicle was hit by the bogies of a goods train near Gul Bai, police and witnesses said.

They said the trailer with an empty container was crossing the track near the Honda Atlas company at around 9am when seven bogies of the City station-bound goods train detached and rolled back on the tracks and hit the trailer.

The Site police said driver Asif and cleaner Arif of the trailer, which was going to Moach Goth from Maripur, were taken to the Civil Hospital. They were later released from the hospital after treatment, they said.

Senior railway officials and the SHO of the City railway station police reached the spot.

ASI Mohammed Maqsood told Dawn that no FIR had been registered as the inquiry was under way to ascertain the cause of the incident.

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