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KARACHI, Dec 13: Two men were killed when they fell three floors from a scaffolding in Clifton.
Boat Basin police said that Younus Masih and Kamran Masih were cleaning windowpanes of a five-storey building when one of them overbalanced and fell. They said that the other cleaner tried to save his colleague when he also fell.
The bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Hospital sources said that both the victims were in their late 20s.
The police said that the victims were residents of Azam Basti, Mehmoodabad, and their bodies were handed over to their families after medico-legal formalities. They said that no case was registered as the men died accidentally.
Activist arrested
A worker of the Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, a proscribed sectarian outfit, was arrested in Baghdadi.
Police said that Imran, son of Ghulam Yaseen, was arrested near Lea Market. They said that the suspect was wanted in an attack on an Imambargah in Lyari in 2005.
Crushed to death
A five-year-old boy was run over near his house by a fast-moving jeep in Kalri.
Police said the boy was crossing a road when he was knocked down. The police said that five others, including a woman, were also injured as the jeep overturned after running over the boy.
Later, the police arrested the driver, Mohammed Rafique, and impounded the jeep.
The body and the injured were shifted to Civil Hospital where the deceased boy was identified as Munir Hussain, and the injured as Sakina Bibi, Zainul Abedeen, Hanif, Mustafa and Usman.
