KARACHI, March 11: Two policemen died after a minibus, they were travelling in, was hit by a truck on Mauripur Road on Friday.

Police said a heavy-duty truck(JE-6513) ploughed into the minibus in the rear after the failure of its brakes. Malik Sarwar, 30, and Mohammad Aslam, 33, died on the spot. They were going to Saeedabad Police Training Centre to take their classes.

The dumper driver escaped, leaving behind the vehicle. The police impounded have impounded the vehicle.

Experts said the truck driver was indulging in reckless driving. Had he been in normal speed, he could have stopped the vehicle.

In another accident, a recklessly-driven minibus ran over a woman near Aisha Manzil on Friday.

Police said Rashida Begum, 35, a resident of Block-14, Federal B Area, was crossing the road near Metropolitan School when she was hit by a minibus of route A-25 (JE-1755). The veiled woman suffered serious injuries and died on the spot. Her body was shifted to Abbasi Hospital by the Jauhrabad police. She had gone there to pick her three children.

Her two sons and a daughter waited for their mother and when she did not turn up, they went home. On reaching home, they did not find their mother and informed their father, who searched her and reached the hospital.

Police said they have arrested the minibus driver, Faisal, 21, and impounded the vehicle. The driver had no license and it was his first experience to drive a minibus. Soon after the incident, enraged people pelted the minibus with stones, and tried to set it on fire, but the police intervened.

DIES: A man died after he fell from a multi-storey building in Clifton. Police said the body was shifted to a hospital The man was identified as Raj Kumar.