THATTA, March 23: Four persons were killed and three others injured as an overloaded fodder truck fell on a passing car while negotiating a blind curve near the Bholari bus stop on the National Highway, near here on Wednesday.

Ustad Mohammad Hanif, a custodian of Dargah Satayoon Sharif, Thatta, Umeed Ali Magsi, an employee of the Rice Research Institute, Thatta, Ali Magsi, a sugarcane trader, and taxi driver Ishaque Bahrani were killed on the spot while three others sustained injuries and were rushed to a Kotri hospital.

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