KARACHI, May 4: Reckless driving claimed four lives in the city on Saturday.
A speeding oil tanker killed two real brothers in Nazimabad.
The victims, Mohammed Ziaul Haque, aged 28, and Mohammed Yasirul Haque, aged 25, were residents of North Karachi. Ziaul Haque got married two months ago.
The police said that the two brothers, riding on a motorcycle, were on way to their shop in Ranchhore Lines from North Karachi. When they reached near the Nazimabad No 7 bus stop, a speeding oil tanker (LSA-5347) rammed into their motorcycle and the tanker dragged them until it stopped. The brothers were seriously injured. They died before they could be given medical aid.
Enraged people, who witnessed the accident, beat up the tanker driver. The police impounded the tanker and took the driver, Mudassir, into custody.
The bodies were sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in Edhi ambulances for post-mortem where they were identified as Mohammed Ziaul Haq and Mohammed Yasirul Haq, residents of North Karachi.
Ziaul Haq ran his provision store in Ranchhore Lines and his younger brother Yasir also sat at the store. Zia leaves behind his widow, mother, a younger brother and three sisters.
A police official said that an FIR (No 152/2002) under sections 302/427/ 109/337-G/34 of PPC had been registered against the driver, Mudassir, and the owner of the tanker, Sabir Shah. The DIG Traffic, Saud Mirza, visited Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and the place of the accident and suspended the section officer of Nazimabad traffic section, SI Liaquat Habib.
The traffic police’s campaign for registering cases under section 279 of PPC against errant drivers of buses, trucks, minibuses and tankers was abandoned under pressure from transporters. Transporters observed a strike recently to pressure the city government and the traffic police to abandon the campaign against them, after which an increase in fatal accidents has been registered.
The Nazim of Liaquatabad Town, Dr Pervez Mehmood, in a statement, expressed grief over the deaths of two brothers in a road accident and visited Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. He urged the police to register an FIR under section 302 of PPC for intentional murder against the driver responsible for the fatal accident. He also demanded a ban on the movement of heavy vehicles during daytime and rush hours, and said the ban should be relaxed between 11pm and 6am.
“If the traffic police will not take action in this respect, the Town administration will take the necessary action,” he said.
In Samanabad police limits, a Hyderabad-bound bus knocked down a motorcyclist killing him on the spot.
The police said that Javed Ali, aged 45, was travelling on a motorcycle (KCG-7388) when a Hyderabad-bound bus (P-0876) knocked him down at the Water Pump intersection in Federal B-Area.
The victim, father of four, was resident of Block-7 in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. He worked with PIA.
The police claimed to have impounded the bus and arrested its driver, Rajan.
A young labourer was run over by a trailer in SITE.
The police said that Mohammed Shakeel, aged 25, was on his way to work in a factory when a speeding trailer (LSB-1184) killed him near the Habib Bank Chowrangi. He was walking across a road when the accident took place.
The body was sent to a hospital. The victim was resident of Sector-11 in Orangi Town. He was the bread-winner of three brothers and five sisters.
The police impounded the truck, but failed to arrest its driver as he fled the scene after the accident. The police, however, managed to ascertain the name of the driver as Mohammed Rafiq.
A 45-year-old man, Shahadat Masih, was run over by a train while walking across the railway tracks near Reti Lane in Railway Cantt police limits, the police said. The victim died on the spot. The body was sent to a hospital for autopsy.
CARJACKING: Fifteen vehicles — eight cars and seven motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the city on Saturday, police sources said.
Five cars were hijacked and three others stolen in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Clifton, Tariq Road and other areas.
Three motorcycles were hijacked and four others stolen in Kharadar, Korangi, North Karachi, Federal B-Area and other police limits.
DIE: Two labourers died in accidents in the city on Saturday.
The police said that a labourer, Javed, aged 27, was working near Nafees Marriage Hall in Nazimabad when he lost his balance and fell on the ground from the second floor of the building he was working on. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
A 25-year-old labourer, Kaley Khan, died when he fell from the third floor of an under-construction building in North Nazimabad in Taimuria police limits. He died on the spot.