KARACHI: Man crushed to death

Published April 21, 2004

KARACHI, April 20: An unidentified man, 25, was crushed to death beneath a locomotive near Railway Cantt on Tuesday. Police said that he was crossing railway tracks when got hit by a train. He died on the spot. His body was shifted to the JPMC for postmortem examination.

DROWNED: An eleven-year-old boy drowned while taking bath in water storage tank at an under construction site in Bath Island on Tuesday. Police said that Kamran was taking bath in the water tank located in Noorani Heights when he drowned.

SHO Boat Basin police station, Wasif Qureshi told Dawn that the court had granted stay at the building site. He said the body was shifted to JPMC for autopsy. Following the incident, some enraged people stormed the booking office of the project and damaged the window panes.

In Gadani, Shahabuddin, 65, was sitting hillock when he slipped and drowned in the sea. Edhi sources said that the body was recovered from the rough sea. An Edhi ambulance shifted the body to the Civil Hospital Karachi for postmortem. They said that the victim had come to Gadani for picnic alongwith his family from New Karachi. Later, the body was handed over to the family for burial.

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