KARACHI, Aug 11: The students of a seminary in Golimar on Saturday morning blocked the main Manghopir Road for over four hours in protest against the death of one of their fellow students, who was killed after being crushed under the wheels of a bus he was disembarking from.

The administrator (nazim) of the Jamia Khulafa-i-Rashideen, Qari Mohammad Iqbal, identified the victim as nine-year-old Faheem, son of Imran, resident of Mansehra, NWFP.

The nazim told Dawn that the boy was suffering from fever and had gone to Qasba Colony to his uncle’s house.

On recovery he was returning in a bus of route 1-C bearing registration No. JA 2114 early on Saturday morning. As the boy stepped out of the bus, the driver sped away as he was racing with another bus.

As a result, Faheem lost his balance and came under the rear wheels of the same bus and was crushed.

The people stopped the bus and parked it in front of the madressah but the driver managed to escape. The body of the student was lying in an ambulance in front of the madressah as the other students, holding sticks and batons, closed the road for all kinds of vehicular traffic.

Long queues of vehicles were observed on both sides of the road, while most people opted to change their route. Office-goers were the worst-affected as the road turning towards Nazimabad Chowrangi at Pak Colony was also closed.

People condemned the police for not regulating the traffic, saying that passengers were forced to get off in the middle of the road.