KARACHI, July 24: Four persons died in three separate road accidents in different parts of the city on Saturday. Police said that Abdul Ghaffar, 16, and an unidentified man (about 50-year-old) sustained fatal injuries when the bus they were travelling in rammed into a parked bus in Zaman Town. The victims were standing at the rear gate of the bus of route number 17-K.

An unidentified motorcyclist, aged about 25, died when a speeding minibus of route number W-22 knocked him down in North Karachi. His body was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for autopsy examination. The minibus driver escaped from the scene.

In another accident, Shahnawaz, 13, was killed by a hit-and-run vehicleon a link road near Super Highway. His body was shifted to the JPMC by police.

BODY FOUND: Body of two-month-old boy was recovered from the underground tank of a house in Shah Faisal Colony on Saturday morning.

Police said that one Mairajuddin, a meat seller, had complained to them that his infant son, Abdul Rehman, was missing.

A search of his house was conducted during which the infant's body was found in the underground water tank.

Police suspect that some personal enmity or feud within the family might have led to the infant's death.

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